Respectable Quotes - Page 4

• A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

  Jane Austen

  Body, May, Single Women

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.1149, Lulu Press, Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren’ . . .well . . . all tha’ respectable.

  J. K. Rowling

  Long, People, Hogwarts

  62 Copy quote

• The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, People, Mind

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Son, Land

  4 Copy quote

• It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered the bulwark of a free people. Tyrants have never placed any confidence on a militia composed of freemen.

  John L. DeWitt

  Country, Tyrants, Government

  9 Copy quote

• The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Bible, God, Christian

  21 Copy quote

• How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Revolution, Grows

  5 Copy quote

• So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Country, Children

  10 Copy quote

• The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

  E. W. Howe

  Government, Organization, People

  9 Copy quote

• My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Uncles, Humorous, Successful

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6226, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

  Oskar Schlemmer

  Badass, Inspiration, Simple

  25 Copy quote

• Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

  Henry Adams

  Believe, Silence, I Believe

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Catholic, Church

  8 Copy quote

• Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

  John le Carre

  Loyalty, Liars, Gentleman

  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963).

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

  Alexander Borodin

  Funny Love, Writing, Careers

  15 Copy quote

• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dance, Party, Men

  7 Copy quote

• There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

  Anthony Trollope

  Wealth, Easy, Matrimony

  'Doctor Thorne' (1858) ch. 16

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists deny that mathematics, except as a shorthand or expository device, can be applied to economic reasoning. There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) either for the deliberate purpose of mystification or to confer dignity upon common places as French was once used in diplomatic communications.

  James R Newman

  Respect, Powerful, Communication

  "The World of Mathematics".

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago by the exact sciences, is now once more dug up by pseudo scientists from the lumber room of human fallacies, and like a trollop, newly attired in elegant dress and make-up, is smuggled into respectable company, to which she does not belong.

  Hermann Kolbe

  Weed, Nature, Philosophy

  7 Copy quote

• Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes be instituted by some informal and unauthorized propositions, made by some patriotic and respectable citizen or number of citizens.

  James Madison

  Moving, Patriotic, Numbers

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.196, Coventry House Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The devil's most devilish when respectable.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Respect, Witty, Devil

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 105

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

  Allan Bloom

  Animal, Conservative, Outlook

  "Allan Bloom, 20 years later" by Jim Sleeper, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully.

  Wolfgang Smith

  Religious, Biblical, Numbers

  12 Copy quote

• The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Names, Doe, Pay

  14 Copy quote

• It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

  Edith Sitwell

  Integrity, Ethics, Be Good

  10 Copy quote