Respectable Quotes

Winning 9 games is very respectable.

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Since when was genius found respectable?

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

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

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

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.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

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

Confidence comes from within and as long as you are putting forth a respectable effort to take good care of yourself, you should feel confident about that path.

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.