17 Respectability Quotes for You to Enjoy

The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world. Theodore Zeldin

Conversation Equality World Strangers Our Respectability Ourselves Purpose Remake Main Open Advancement Instead Longer Like Most Practically Personal Conversations Us Create Working Use Engaging

Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we're washing away their sins yet. Enda Kenny

People Word Country Nation Down Respectability Respected Bad Entire Because Were Sins Did Who Washing Let Down Professions Away Things

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. D. H. Lawrence

You Respectability Shall Glad Invincible Steps Dogs Your Strangled

Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser. Chuck Noll

Respectability Respectable True Spoken Like Loser Wants Who

I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor. Arjun Rampal

Thought Pay Films Respectability Something More Written Like Look Cheque Provoking Than Realism Certain Actor Amount Level

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability. Shelley Winters

Respectability Toward Over Sixty Now

When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar. Jose Feliciano

Guitar Respectability Brought He Became Fan Much Avid

From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths of a human being, an abundance of 'likability' hasn't been something blacks have had to stockpile. Instead, it's been a centuries-long battle for respectability. John Ridley

Battle Human Being First Before Our Teeth Sold Later Respectability Considered Blacks Something Had Instead Abundance Checked Were Been Off Dumped Getting Human Being Moment

To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested. Charlie Pierce

Game Respectability Distinction Recognize Would Would-Be Fine Rested Football Part Head Boxing Erase Were Essential Which Injuries

It's time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival. Hari Nef

Time Survival Respectability Particularly Make Aesthetic Feminist Mobile Room

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. Kenneth L. Pike

People Value Guess Respectability Would Also Them Granted Societies Universal

I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was. I was, like, 10, 13, 15 years old when the show was a thing. But eventually, I could see that Cliff became a play for respectability. 'This is how you comport yourself among white people, young black child. Take a little bit of Howard with you on your way to Harvard.' Wesley Morris

You Yourself People Old Black Young White Project Respectability Way Bit Harvard See Entire Could Take Like Known Became Cliff How Years Child Little Little Bit Your Show Eventually Play Among Thing

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability. Hanif Kureishi

Family Me Father Job Big Sense Respectability Respectable Civil Civil Servant Having Support Deal Big Deal Being Mean Regular Servant

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

Strength Made Increased Other Considerable Considerably Respectability Secure Attempt Town Rendered Force Within Years Very Any Eight Regard Pace Which Against Cape Last Kept

When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it's a commitment. And if you don't want to commit, then don't be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respectability. For me, it's always been like that. Shahid Kapoor

Me Relationship You Commitment Somebody Every Respectability Seeing Like Obviously Always Been Commit Want Then Certain Credibility Deserves

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

Heart Human Heart Minds Respectability Those Easy Seduce Some Brought Bear Tend Glide Along Know Opinion How Motives Current Human Influence Where Which Popular Popular Opinion