Respectable Quotes
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Those days acting was not considered a respectable profession. Only prostitutes and other such lower classes were associated with it.
Raj Kapoor
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Don't assume you are a respectable person, just because of your position, to us, you are just a whore.
Ashin Wirathu
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In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
Fanny Burney
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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.
Aristotle
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We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
George Washington
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The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
Agatha Christie
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I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Jane Austen
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The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.
Catherine Bell
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
Karl Lagerfeld
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Respectable people... What bastards!
Emile Zola
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Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.
Dan Barker
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The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Jane Austen
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The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.
Freya Stark
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Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
Humphrey Carpenter
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What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. These books should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.
Adam Bellow
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A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully.
Wolfgang Smith
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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
Jane Austen
