Respectable Quote by Oscar Wilde

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

— Oscar Wilde

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

— Oscar Wilde

The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

— Julia Quinn

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

— Victor Hugo

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

— Paulo Coelho

What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important…

— David Robinson

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

— Anthony Trollope

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did notthe value of security won,…

— Ida Tarbell

Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such…

— James Madison

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens