Respectability Quotes

• 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
  • Force
  • Eight
  • Capes

• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Good
  • City
  • Queens

• The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Road
  • Slave
  • Labors

• Morality is not respectability.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Morality
  • Respectability

• There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respectability. So today, the best way to get women once more interested in getting married and having children is for men to accept women's new insistence on equality. This is, I think, why educated women in America, are now more pro - marriage and more disapproving of divorce than other groups of women who have less experience with egalitarian partners or less clout in getting their needs met in relationships.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Security

• At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Animal
  • Duty
  • Respectability

• Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

  

  Thomas Dewar
  • Pleasure
  • States
  • Caught

• It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Virtue
  • One Thing
  • End Of The World

• People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Think
  • Nonfiction
  • Respectability

• Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.

  

  Edward Bates
  • Character
  • Passion
  • Happiness