Quotes About Respectable

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

No governm[en]t could give us tranquillity and happiness at home, which did not possess sufficient stability and strength to make us respectable abroad.

You be respectable, sister," she said, "Me, I'll be alive.

When you are older you will meet a man who will love you for yourself. A good-natured, charming respectable man who is liked by you family.

My congratulations on leaving the legal profession and becoming a respectable member of the community.

Indoors was his place and there he'd moulder, a respectable pillar of society who has never had the chance to misbehave.

Some people really think that great wealth makes crime respectable, and if it is pointed out to a wealthy but dishonest man, that he is merely a common thief, and if in addition, the fact is proved to everybody's satisfaction, his anger is noticeable.

I will believe him to have been a very respectable man, who only spoke the truth when he boasted of his power to be in two places at the same time." "Is that so difficult?" said the old gentleman; "if so, you have never dreamed!

I belong to that highly respectable tribeWhich is known as the Shabby Genteel…Too proud to beg, too honest to steal.

Writers are not, by nature, respectable: their function is to be subversive.

I've always had an image of Mother's Pride flour, very respectable and middle-class.

Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily.

Spuntò la domenica, stolida e rispettabile; persino il mare sembrava borbottare e lamentarsi. Tornarono a Princeton facendo autostop, su vecchie ford di contadini transeunti. Si erano beccati raffreddori di testa, ma per il resto giunsero sani e salvi alla fine del vagabondaggio.

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

The concern of Methodist jeremiads in the late nineteenth century (see Chapter 5) was that growing Methodist churches were mimicking the standards of others, seeking to be respectable in their eyes. Finally, professional clergy will be more restrained by the norms of the profession and the larger denomination than lay clergy, because they have more to lose-for

Hubba-Hubba' never slips out, Zeke said. You selected those words with deliberate intent, and I question your commitment to the respectable use of the English language.

Passions! Intoxication! Insanity! You are so calm and collected, so indifferent, you respectable people, tut-tutting about drunkenness and holding unreasonable behaviour in contempt

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

I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I'm not respectable, I'm going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.