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Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. — Kenneth Clark

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger. — Albert Payson Terhune

Unless you look dirty, wild, and disreputable, and smell really bad, if you know what your talent is, I guarantee some employer is looking for you — Richard N. Bolles

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone — John Updike

Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-) — Larry Sanger

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off. — Woody Guthrie

Sitting at the single table in a disreputable pile of lumber mistakenly called a building. — Andrea K. Host

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life. — Georges Bizet

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape. — Travis Kalanick

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition? — Jasper Fforde

For Mrs. Satterthwaite interested herself - it was the only interest she had - in handsome, thin, and horribly disreputable young men. — Ford Madox Ford

Nothing is more disreputable than wasting a reputation where it cannot be flaunted, for fame fades fast in fighting filthy foes. — Andrew Chugg

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country. — Khem Veasna

Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one. — Garth Nix

Double et louche (a provocative phrase which could mean "double and squinting" or "equivocal" or "shady" in the sense of disreputable). — Barbara W. Tuchman

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable ... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! — Kenneth Clark

Talisman, Talisman, show me your secrets,
Helmsman, Helmsman, turn me for home. — Robert James Waller

A lady is never disreputable in public, unless intended for manipulation of sympathies. — Gail Carriger

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. — Anna Jameson

In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude. — Burt Reynolds

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. — Jonathan Lethem

Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov

Never sympathize with the thing that is stabbing God all the time. God has to hurt the thing that must go. — Oswald Chambers

It's always better to be doing. — Garth Nix

I lied," said the Dog cheerily. "That's one of the reasons I'm the Disreputable Dog. Besides, — Garth Nix

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer. — Paul Theroux