Respectable Quotes

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

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 hooligans out there.

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

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 and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.

There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

All my problems bow before my stubbornness.

People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals.

When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.

Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".

Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.

It's not respectable, ' she said. And when people say that, it's no useanyone's saying anything.

If a person loves you but doesn't respect you then it can not be a real love. It is not possible to love them without respecting them.

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense.

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.

I want people to respect me and not just my position.

True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone.