65 Quotations with Respectable.
- 1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Since when was genius found respectable?

- 2. George Orwell: Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respe ...

- 3. Ambrose Bierce: DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Aff ...

- 4. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...

- 5. Ambrose Bierce: SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, ...

- 6. Ambrose Bierce: SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenome ...

- 7. Bertrand Russell: I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my fa ...

- 8. George Bernard Shaw: The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

- 9. George Orwell: Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, ...

- 10. Josephine Hart: We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And ...

- 11. Oscar Wilde: To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get ...

- 12. George Santayana: The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever ...

- 13. Tom Stoppard: I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradict ...

- 14. John Kenneth Galbraith: The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

- 15. Unknown: If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.

- 16. William Hazlitt: A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automat ...

- 17. Samuel Johnson: A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a se ...

- 18. Henry Brooks Adams: As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Ev ...

- 19. Robert Rice: Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered pe ...

- 20. John Updike: Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to a ...

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