#respectable

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#illusions #profitable #respectable #safe

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#desire #first #law #make #must

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#go #i #i think #least #most

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ↗

— Humphrey Carpenter

#form #lying #most #probably #respectable

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#books #days #infamous #listen #made

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

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh. ↗

— Moliere

#laugh #make #people #respectable #strange

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#american films #being #big #career #exciting

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. ↗

— Will Rogers

#big #big enough #build #enough #respectable

My work is not great, but it's respectable. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#respectable #work