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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.
Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.
Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.
Service football is extremely respectable and very competitive. They've won some big games.
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
I'm a college dropout. My parents thought they had three respectable children, and I was the black sheep.
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.
The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.
Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.
Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
I've always had an image of Mother's Pride flour, very respectable and middle-class.
I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice
since there are lots of good and respectable people in the
world.
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.
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.
Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.
Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
