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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability. — Shelley Winters

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine. — Rumi

My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability. — Christopher Fowler

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues. — Mason Cooley

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works. — Miroslav Volf

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. — Ambrose Bierce

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. — D.H. Lawrence

We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability. — Wilkie Collins

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear. — Abraham Lincoln

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability. — Patrick DeWitt

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. — Benjamin Disraeli

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character — Edward Bates

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness. — E. M. Forster

Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability. — Max Blumenthal

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

My life has been one long descent into respectability. — Mandy Rice-Davies

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also? — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams. — Mason Cooley

Morality is not respectability. — George Bernard Shaw

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. — Sam Keen

Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. — Ambrose Bierce

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. — Mason Cooley

Ultimate in respectability: not only received back into the ranks of the people but also — Nien Cheng

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning. — Alain De Botton

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. — Mahatma Gandhi

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age. — Albert Einstein

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization. — Elbert Hubbard

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. — E. Stanley Jones

It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability. — Maud Younger

I thought she had a good heart, though not much respectability- or maybe it was because of that. — Mary Webb

Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love. To — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Organized crime is nothing more than capitalism with the mask of respectability removed. - Dave Mazza — J.D. Chandler

respectability to good impulses — George MacDonald

Respectability offends my taste. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men? — Thomas Carlyle

More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The — Agatha Christie

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. — Robert Ringer

We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything. — Stephen Colbert

respectability with overtones of — Maeve Binchy

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

Respectable people... What bastards! — Emile Zola

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability. — Stanley Nelson Jr.

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability. — Brandon Sanderson

He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration. — G.K. Chesterton

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. — Walter Lippmann

Danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability. — Susan Moody

I find that respectability grows wearisome after a time, when one is accustomed to being a disgrace. — Marie Brennan

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. — Kenneth L. Pike

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. — Amiri Baraka

Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability. — Mason Cooley