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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

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out. — Kim Cattrall

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
— Louis D. Brandeis

We're sort of like the town whore that's finally become an institution. We're finally becoming respectable. — Jerry Garcia

The neighborhood was at the friction point between sleazy and respectable. — James S.A. Corey

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

A respectable soul of good quality costs entirely too much to maintain. — A.E. Marling

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. — Thomas Mann

In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth. — John Kenneth Galbraith

A respectable prison is still a prison. — V.E Schwab

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

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. — Oscar Wilde

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

I'm not sure what I'd do with you if you were respectable. — Richelle Mead

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

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. — Maurice Sendak

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

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it. — Rebecca West

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner, — Jeaniene Frost

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco... — Sara Miles

Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all. — Stephen Baxter

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable. — Brian Greene

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. — Mary Augusta Ward

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss. — Pamela Frankau

I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is! — Charles Dickens

On Aditya, such would be unthinkable; on Aditya, everybody respects authority. Whether it's respectable or not. — H. Beam Piper

People will think you're courting me.'
'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women. — Julia Quinn

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. — Flannery O'Connor

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age. — Mark Twain

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

I blame it on the heat. And Morgan had gone to India, and the heat had not undone him. He had remained respectable. — Damon Galgut

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance. — Mike Birbiglia

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. — Robert Towne

Respectable people... What bastards! — Emile Zola

And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable. — Armineonila M.

They had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. — Jane Austen

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married. — Mary Heaton Vorse

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office. — Will Rogers

It was a bowl cut, the hairstyle for someone who doesn't grasp respectable haircuts but suddenly has to have one. — David S. Atkinson

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized. — Dan Barker

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

The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name. — Laurence J. Peter

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing. — Jane Austen

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person! — Lewis Carroll

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. — Samuel Butler

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. — Henry David Thoreau

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. — Paul Claudel

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead ... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt. — Thomas Huxley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter

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

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down. — Katherine Boo

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

Being authentic is more respectable than being great. — K.P. Stafford

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable. — Laozi

Heidegger's parlamblings on 'Nothing' and 'Not' and 'the Nothing that Nothings' were the last supposedly respectable gasp of classical philosophy. — John Gardner

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

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable. — Jonathan V. Last

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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