Doubt Quote by Maud Younger

“I like to know what my friends are thinking and feeling. If too long a time elapses without my checking up on these things,…

— Louise Dickinson Rich

“Before the storm, he'd been a man who never met a stranger, never seemed to doubt himself. He could run faster than anyone; there…

— Kate Southwood

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements…

— William Bligh

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness…

— Walt Whitman

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to…

— Ralph Nader

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love…

— Honore de Balzac

Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children…

— Anna Quindlen

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and…

— Victor Hugo

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a…

— Marya Mannes

Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at…

— Scott Lynch

Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as…

— Kerry Thornley