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  • Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

    Men   Lessons   Joyful  
  • An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.

    Money   Men   Simplicity  
  • I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.

    Kissing   Men   Thinking  
  • Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

    Life   Men   Giving  
  • The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

    Man and Superman (1903) act 1
  • I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

    Respect   Men   Flesh  
  • I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

    "The Impact and Legacy Years, 1941, 1947, 1968". p. 100. Book by Fred Pulis, 2000.
  • The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

    Lying   Men   Names  
    Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.133, Ivan R. Dee
  • If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

    Respect   Law   Desire  
    "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1996.
  • The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

    Men   Rags   Hairspray  
  • Men are respectable only as they respect.

    Respect   Army   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”
  • I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidatesas the only available one, thus proving that he is himself available for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.

    Country   Men   Voting  
  • Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

  • Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

    Horse   Laughter   Fun  
    Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press
  • A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

    Love   Men   May  
  • 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.

    Heart   Men   Honour You  
    Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97
  • Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

    Honesty   Heart   Female  
    Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.302, Wordsworth Editions
  • I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

    Men   Prejudice   Kind  
    Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97
  • A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

    Respect   Selfish   Men  
    Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.416
  • Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

  • For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

    Men   Thinking   Fool  
    George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.230, e-artnow
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