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Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence. — Henry Adams

MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable. — Jim Propp

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. — Humphrey Carpenter

The two sides of the debate don't even mention that viewpoint, so far outside the bounds of respectable thought it lies. — Anonymous

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst. — David Lloyd-Jones

Games of chance fell outside the boundaries of urban reformers' definitions of respectable labor and amusement — LaShawn Harris

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil. — Christian Nestell Bovee

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde

Bohemian - a respectable sort of tramp. — L.M. Montgomery

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. — Timothy Noah

It's not respectable,' she said.
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything. — E. Nesbit

wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody. I only want to think YOU perfect, and you set yourself against it. — Jane Austen

I just didn't want to leave the Cowboys when they were down. I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over. — Tom Landry

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. — Stephanie Mills

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. — Frederick The Great

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. — Tom Stoppard

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

Below her, on rough benches, sat not only most of the trash in Maycomb County, but the county's most respectable men. — Harper Lee

The goal is to do things that are exciting and respectable. — Jared Kushner

Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice
since there are lots of good and respectable people in the
world. — Masaaki Hatsumi

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H.L. Mencken

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both. — Hector Hugh Munro

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase. — P.G. Wodehouse

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable. — Jane Bryant Quinn

The devil's most devilish when respectable. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction. — Sacha Guitry

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life. — Jesse Kellerman

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life. — George Sand

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul — Karl Lagerfeld

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility. — Eberhard Bethge

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. — Alan Bennett

If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze — Kamala Suraiyya Das

The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out. — Agatha Christie

Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would."
~ A Woman of Fortune — Kellie Coates Gilbert

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was. — Callan McAuliffe

Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor. — Billy Graham

The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me. — Jude Morgan

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles. — Peter L. Bernstein

I'm a thoroughly respectable woman."
"You don't kiss like one. — Ruthie Knox

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music. — Ice Cube

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. — Richard Diebenkorn

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature. — Lin Yutang

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. — Joseph De Maistre

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not. — L. Frank Baum

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. — George MacDonald

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots. — H.L. Mencken

Visiting a brothel is respectable, the vicar's widow asks with her brows raised?" "They — Jennifer Ashley

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. — James M. Barrie

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. — J.B. Priestley

To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne. — James A. Michener

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable. — David Blunkett

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food — Guy De Maupassant

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. — Frederic Bastiat