Respectability Quotes - Page 6

• In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability." I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.

  Martha Graham

  Powerful, Artist, Missing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

  Albert Einstein

  Age, Gypsy, Tendencies

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.82, Princeton University Press

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• A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

  John Ashbery

  Perfect, Example, Togas

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• It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability... I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn't successful.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Successful, Men

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• You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Intelligent, Past

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• Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gauges, Income, Natural

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.137, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Growing Up, White, Focus

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability.

  Max Blumenthal

  Maintaining, Planets, Brown

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sleep, Opposites, Needs

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• Men are respectable only as they respect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Army, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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

  John Milton

  Hope, Despair, May

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 190

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• 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

  Respect, Men, Flesh

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• Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Merit, Deference, Esteem

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• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Useless, Resolution

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.253, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baseball, Mother, Games

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

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Vanity, Office

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.109

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Luck, Merit

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• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Vanity, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.101, Penguin

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• I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

  Rumi

  Reading, Dawn, Want

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Ode 1823”

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• Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.

  Ralph Nader

  Wife, House, Feminist

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• A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fake People, Views, Dignity

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• I hate victims who respect their executioners.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fake People, Hate, Judging

  Les S‚questr‚s d'Altona (The Condemned of Altona, 1960) act 1, sc. 1

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• And 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

  God, Religious, Fear

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.261, Library of America

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