Quotes: Respectability
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
author, professor, and philosopher
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856-1950)
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908-2006)
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator (1754-1817)
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
African-American writer (1934-2014)
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
Methodist missionary and theologian (1884-1973)
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
Now that I’m over sixty I’m veering toward respectability.
American actress (1920-2006)