Respectable Quotes - Page 5

• The devil's most devilish when respectable.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Respect, Witty, Devil

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

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• Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by the aid of that large and respectable class of the community - the men of no property.

  Wolfe Tone

  Fall, Men, Class

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• 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

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Names, Doe, Pay

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• It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

  Edith Sitwell

  Integrity, Ethics, Be Good

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• From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Country, Writing, Science

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• The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Hate, Struggle, Our World

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• Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

  George Will

  Football, America, Citizens

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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

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• Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Economics, Professors

  1850 Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.1,'The Present Time'.

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• Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Inspiring, Respect

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• 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".

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• No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Two, Evil

  "Selected Essays on Political Economy". Book by Frederic Bastiat edited by George B. de Huszar (translated), 1964.

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• The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

  Aristotle

  Class, Perfect, Community

  Aristotle (1919). “A treatise on government: translated from the Greek of Aristotle”

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• It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

  A.J. Ayer

  Past, Superstitions, Way

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• Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order.

  Andrew Jackson

  Character, Order, Talent

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• But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

  James Madison

  Heart, Government, Attachment

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.306, Coventry House Publishing

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• SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Punishment, Political

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.209, 谷月社

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• By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Friends, Fear, War

  "It's Time We Called the Declaration of Independence's Bluff" by Charles P.Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 4, 2016.

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• What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently and become a fairly respectable citizen has gone to the dogs for the want of some one to administer a good resounding kick at the right time. It is corrective and clarifying.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Dog, Men, Citizens

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Illustrated)”, p.992, Delphi Classics

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• It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fall, Animal, Advantage

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.49, Dial Press

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• 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.

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• My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

  Christopher Durang

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  "Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.

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• Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Past, Church, Elements

  Sinclair Lewis (2013). “Babbitt”, p.298, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

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