We've found 11 quotes for 'respectable' (0.131 seconds):
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"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Virtue has never been as respectable as money." »Mark Twain
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"Since when was genius found respectable?" »Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." »Oscar Wilde
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"Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." »George Orwell
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"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns." »George Santayana
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"All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government." »SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
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"Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." »George Orwell, 1946
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"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house." »Josephine Hart, "Sin"
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"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony." »William Ellery Channing
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