Quotes About Respectable

Your Paris is only a mudhole." To which Vautrin responds with a new generalization: "And a very strange mudhole," he says. "Those whose carriage gets muddy in its streets are respectable, those who get muddy on foot are crooks. Have the misfortune to snatch some trifle and you are put on display in the law courts. Steal a million, you're noted in the drawing rooms as a man of honor.