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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
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
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
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
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
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[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.
— Pamela Frankau
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
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
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
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
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
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
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
— Richard Diebenkorn
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
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 justicesince 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
