Family Quote by Thomas Mann

Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

— Robert Towne

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

— Paulo Coelho

Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give…

— William P. Merrill

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

— Joe Meno

Being a kind or decent person is not only measured in mere words but with actions, don't just say it, show it.

— Rashida Rowe

The things that are considered to be respectable have their roots in unrespectable things.

— Steven Knight

Anything is respectable in its own realm.

— Chance The Rapper

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

— Cynthia Voigt

None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

— Edward Abbey

The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would…

— Len Goodman

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

— Fannie Flagg