Respectable Quotes

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. (George Bernard Shaw)
Since when was genius found respectable? View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. View quote
John Updike
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. View quote
George Orwell
There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . . View quote
George Eliot
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future. View quote
Maurice Ashley
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. (Alexander Hamilton)
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. View quote
Steven Weinberg
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages! View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. View quote
Mark Twain
If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. View quote
Leslie Stephen
Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world. View quote
Alexis Arguello
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves. View quote
Diane Wakoski
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. View quote
Ida Tarbell
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. (James Madison)
I don't see why people are so snooty about Channel 5. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap dancing, and other related and vital subjects. View quote
Boris Johnson
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof. View quote
G. H. Hardy
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
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. View quote
L. Frank Baum