“ Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Frank Howard of the Nats is the only active player who can hit his weight and still have a respectable batting average ”
- Leonard Robert Davids- Copy
- 2.8K
“ When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 976
“ The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live. ”
- William P. Merrill- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable. ”
- Ntozake Shange- Copy
- 684
“ Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness. ”
- George Will- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,/ To make a pipe for my capacious mouth. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 1.7K
“ When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 4K
“ When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 641
“ You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest. ”
- Denis Waitley- Copy
- 118
“ When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death. ”
- Wendy Wasserstein- Copy
- 1.1K
“ If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses. ”
- Flann O’Brien- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. ”
- Robert G. Menzies- Copy
- 549
“ I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen. ”
- Cormac McCarthy- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability. ”
- Shelley Winters- Copy
- 830
“ The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 389
“ The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
- 1.6K
“ To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 931
“ My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 275
“ 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- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 2.4K
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