Quotes About Respectable

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

The average critic never recognizes an achievement when it happens. He explains it after it has become respectable.

This strength, and love of life in them, to me seemed not only highly respectable, but glorious and bewitching.

She called him Bartleby, after the well-known scrivener: "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn." I likened him more to some form of rat terrier: arrogant.

You could guarantee a decent cup of coffee in Betty's, but it went beyond the decent coffee and the respectable girls (and women) who had been parcelled up some time in the 1930s and freshly unwrapped this morning. It was the way that everything was exactly right and fitting. And clean.

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

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

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.

If you wanted to show that someone was a good chap, the essence of a good and clean Englishman, you would say that he was an athlete.

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

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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.

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

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

The greater part of violence that humans have inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or the mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in the service of the collective ego.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Service football is extremely respectable and very competitive. They've won some big games.

But while you're abroad lead respectable lives; Love your neighbors, and welcome--but don't love their wives!