Top 1200 Respectable Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.

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

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

...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

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

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

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

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

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

Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced -- there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

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

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

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

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

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

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

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

For me, I just like to play respectable football.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

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

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

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

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

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

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

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

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

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

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

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

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

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

Service football is extremely respectable and very competitive. They've won some big games.

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

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

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

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Anything is respectable in its own realm.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.