Top 464 Respectable Quotes & Sayings

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Since when was genius found respectable?

But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

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

It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy - alas, America!

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

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I'm not respectable, I'm going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

Winning 9 games is very respectable.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

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

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

But I intend to make you respectable.

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

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

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability." I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

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.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

My work is not great, but it's respectable.

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

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

The goal is to do things that are exciting and respectable.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

For me, I just like to play respectable football.

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

Stephen Keshi is a good coach and he has changed Nigeria into a respectable team.

I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.

Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.

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

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Respectable people... What bastards!

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

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

Anything is respectable in its own realm.

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

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

By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.