“ I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. ”
- Ugo Betti- Copy
- 3.6K
“ There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
- 79
“ Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ”
- Thorstein Veblen- Copy
- 392
“ Writers are not, by nature, respectable: their function is to be subversive. ”
- Anthony Burgess- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
- 2.4K
“ One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. ”
- Mrs. Humphrey Ward- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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
- 996
“ If fortune wishes to make a man respectable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him respected, she gives him success. ”
- Joseph Joubert- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. ”
- Alan Bennett- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It showed a lot of character. Getting in late after an emotional win, we could have just made it respectable but we did our job and wanted to win and that showed. ”
- Jason Kidd- Copy
- 1.3K
“ There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 3K
“ I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. ”
- Wolfman Jack- Copy
- 1.8K
“ To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 510
“ There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony; that is, of course, provided that the aspirant declines the slow course of honest work. ”
- Anthony Trollope- Copy
- 612
“ If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ”
- Leslie Stephen- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. ”
- Anthony Trollope- Copy
- 589
“ I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced. ”
- Robert Lanza- Copy
- 125
“ The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.7K
“ It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 2.1K
“ To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.9K
“ No place in England where everyone can go, is considered respectable. ”
- George Moore- Copy
- 1.9K
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