Respectable Quotes

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

Respectable people... What bastards!

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

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

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Winning 9 games is very respectable.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

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

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

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

But I intend to make you respectable.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

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

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.

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.