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Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
— Humphrey Carpenter
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
It's not respectable,' she said. And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything. — E. Nesbit
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 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 justicesince 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
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
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
— Richard Diebenkorn
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
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