Top 1200 Respectable Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world.

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

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

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Respectable transwomen were not as visible and very unclear in how they defined themselves. I had no one to look up to, pre-transition.

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

That was part of David Duke's agenda, is to turn the Klan from a racist organization in the eyes of the public into something that is respectable and acceptable.

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

By God's grace and strength of my work, I've managed to build a respectable image that I use to serve both my continent and my country.

If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other respectable literary venue. And that's okay. I can live with that.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidatesas the only available one, thus proving that he is himself available for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable to be a liberal.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

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

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

I'm a college dropout. My parents thought they had three respectable children, and I was the black sheep.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

I've always had an image of Mother's Pride flour, very respectable and middle-class.

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

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

SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.