#respectable

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents. ↗

— Joan Chen

#asian #children #decent #having #into

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#classes #gardens #may #respectable #these

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#awards #because #buyers #comic #comics

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#books #bookshelves #claim #every #exist

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#blow #british #character #deadly #greatest

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ↗

— George Orwell

#designed #give #language #lies #make

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#matrimony #respectable #road #wealth

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ↗

— Voltaire

#defects #ends #makes #making #men

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#i #knows #legitimate #like #music

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. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#creep #enough #flesh #i #know