Quotes and Sayings about 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."
- William Bligh
(Related: Strength, Force, Respectability, Years)

"The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Respectability)

"In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: Faith, Hope, Deep, Desire, Economics, Pretension, Respectability)

"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are."
- E. Stanley Jones
(Related: Church, Desire, Respectability)

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
- Sam Keen
(Related: Deep, Laziness, Respectability, Summer)

"I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Dogs, Respectability)

"It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them."
- Kenneth L. Pike
(Related: People, Respectability, Value)

"My life has been one long descent into respectability."
- Mandy Rice-Davies
(Related: Life, Respectability)

"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Men, Respectability)

"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."
- Benjamin F. Wade
(Related: Heart, Influence, Motives, Opinion, Popular, Respectability)

"Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability."
- Shelley Winters
(Related: Now, Respectability)