Respectable Quotes

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

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.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

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

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

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.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.

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

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

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

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

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

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.