Respectability Quotes
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Respectability Quotes & Sayings
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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
— Shelley Winters
My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability.
— Christopher Fowler
Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.
— Miroslav Volf
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
— D.H. Lawrence
Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
— Abraham Lincoln
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability.
— Max Blumenthal
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
— Mandy Rice-Davies
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Morality is not respectability.
— George Bernard Shaw
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
— George Bernard Shaw
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
— Ambrose Bierce
Ultimate in respectability: not only received back into the ranks of the people but also
— Nien Cheng
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
— Alain De Botton
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.
— Albert Einstein
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
— Elbert Hubbard
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
— E. Stanley Jones
I thought she had a good heart, though not much respectability- or maybe it was because of that.
— Mary Webb
Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love. To
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Organized crime is nothing more than capitalism with the mask of respectability removed. - Dave Mazza
— J.D. Chandler
respectability to good impulses
— George MacDonald
Respectability offends my taste.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?
— Thomas Carlyle
More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The
— Agatha Christie
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A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.
— Robert Ringer
We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.
— Stephen Colbert
respectability with overtones of
— Maeve Binchy
If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze
— Kamala Suraiyya Das
Respectable people... What bastards!
— Emile Zola
There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.
— Stanley Nelson Jr.
Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.
— Brandon Sanderson
He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.
— G.K. Chesterton
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
— Walter Lippmann
I find that respectability grows wearisome after a time, when one is accustomed to being a disgrace.
— Marie Brennan
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
— Kenneth L. Pike
