#respectability

My life has been one long descent into respectability. ↗

— Mandy Rice-Davies

#descent #into #life #long #my life

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

#bear #brought #current #easy #glide

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#now #over #respectability #sixty #toward

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#air conditioning #been #conditioning #god #over

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#begin #close #head #respectability #shades

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#coexist #deep #deep desire #desire #economics

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#glad #i #invincible #respectability #shall

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

#granted #guess #i #people #respectability

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#keep #mean #men #respectability #some

Respectable people... What bastards! ↗

— Émile Zola

#respect