Respectable Quotes

• If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Respect, Law, Desire

  "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1996.

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Exercise, Up Early

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Respect, Integrity, Character

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

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• What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

  David Robinson

  Sports, Respect, Attitude

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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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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• The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Astrology, Looks, Economic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Fashion, Strong, Numbers

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Romance, Mates

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• Since when was genius found respectable?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Respect, Genius, Statistics

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 6, l. 275

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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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• Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

  Robert Towne

  Respect, Long, Ugly

  Robert Towne (1997). “Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays”, p.80, Grove Press

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• Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Virtue

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.589

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• In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Authority

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.281, Bantam

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• It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ironic, Dull, Safe

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.210, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

  George Santayana

  Life, Laughter, Confused

  George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

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• If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Enough, Bigs

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• 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.

  Alexis Arguello

  Sports, Air, People

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• These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

  Kinky Friedman

  Song, Book, People

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• I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

  Ugo Betti

  Family, Home, Thinking

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

  Guy de Maupassant

  Passion, Seems

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• The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

  Catherine Bell

  Strong Women, Intelligent, Able

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Updike

  Change, Art, Reflection

  John Updike (1991). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• 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

  Respect, Selfish, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.416

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