Quotation Explorer - 'Respectable'

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem. - Anatole France
A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable! - Mehmet Murat ildan
De toutes les passions, la seule vraiment respectable me paraît être la gourmandise. - Guy de Maupassant
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. - Jane Austen
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul - Karl Lagerfeld
I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting. - Adam Clayton Powell III
Since when was genius found respectable? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - George Bernard Shaw
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power. - David Halberstam
Your little r changes the status of a single lady ‘Ms’ into a respectable lady ‘Mrs’. Man, you make the difference! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. - Tom Stoppard
Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. - George Orwell
Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco... - Sara Miles
Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! - Mehmet Murat ildan
People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals. - Amit Kalantri
Brand integrity is the ability to present one’s brand both in words and deeds to be true, respectable and acceptable without compromising on standards (brand’s promise). - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. - George Orwell
A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing. - Justin Alcala
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. - George Santayana
I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. - Flannery O'Connor
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. - Bertrand Russell
It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42 - Alaa Al Aswany
The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. - Frédéric Bastiat
War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. - Mary Horlock
During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high. - Kurt Vonnegut
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. - H.L. Mencken
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. - Mark Twain
Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. - George Orwell
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. - Oscar Wilde
One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable. - Jonathan V. Last
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