Quotes of Respectability - somelinesforyou

“ I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security. ”

- Robert Frost

“ To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you? ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ My life has been one long descent into respectability. ”

- Mandy Rice Davies

“ Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability. ”

- Shelley Winters

“ We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth. ”

- Voltaire

“ When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. ”

- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“ Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose. ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

“ Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ”

- Sam Keen

“ The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Respect starts with yourself. ”

- Unknown

“ Respect starts with yourself. ”

- Unknown

“ The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. ”

- Maggie Kuhn

“ We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair. ”

- John Milton

“ No place in England where everyone can go, is considered respectable. ”

- George Moore

“ One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. ”

- Ed Howe

“ One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ In his private heart no man much respects himself. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. ”

- Joseph De Maistre

“ A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. ”

- Aesop

“ I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. ”

- Malcolm X
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