Top 136 Respectability Quotes & Sayings

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

Respectability offends my taste.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.

To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.

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.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

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?

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

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.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

Morality is not respectability.

When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar.

Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.

I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

I will continue doing films till my last breathe and will regain my respectability in the industry.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a women I wanted to keep my respectability intact.

The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability.

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we're washing away their sins yet.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves.

Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.