Respectable Quotes

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

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.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

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

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

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.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

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.

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

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.

Since when was genius found respectable?

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

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

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

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.

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.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

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

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves.

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

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

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.