Respectable Quotes

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.

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.

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

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.

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

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

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become 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.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

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

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!'

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Since when was genius found respectable?

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

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

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.

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.

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

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.

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.

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