Respectable People Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them. — E. W. Howe
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. — Oscar Wilde
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. — Alexander Borodin
The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility. — Eberhard Bethge
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent… — Brock Chisholm
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not… — George Orwell
I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I… — Jon Meacham
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh. — Moliere
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of… — John Updike
She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there… — Marilynne Robinson
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those… — Isaac Asimov
I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning,… — Wilkie Collins
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding… — Margaret Atwood
Respectable people... What bastards! — Emile Zola
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. — Bertrand Russell

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