Best Respectable Man Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Thinking Knows Men Conditions Creation Fool Respectable Rascals Respectable Man

Book:THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship

Source: THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship

“A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.”

Men Love May Folly Respectable Respectable Man

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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.”

Men Shows Money Rich Honest Simplicity Sensible Modest Humane Respectable Respectable Man

Author:John Adams

“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 Angry Joyful Delightful Misunderstanding Respectable Respectable Man

Author:Confucius

“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 Streets Dangerous Rings Halls Respectable Creeps Rags Wedding Ring Hairspray Respectable Man

Author:Michelle Malkin

“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”

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

Men Ends Character Reputation Defects Respectable Respectable Man

Author:Voltaire

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

Ifs Firsts Law Desire Politics Respect Lawyer Respectable Disobedience Civil Disobedience Respectable Man

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.”

Men Kind Prejudice Elegance Respectable Pretension Respectable Man

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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 Honesty Creatures Female Rational Elegant Plague Speak The Truth Respectable Man

Book:The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“Men are respectable only as they respect.”

Men Respect Ethics Army Tolerance Self Respect Respectable Respecting Others Disrespect Respectability Respectable Man

Book:Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms

Source: Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms

“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.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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.”

Thinking Men Missing Kissing Reputation Throat Flash Pale Respectable Robes Bending Marry Me Respectable Man

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“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.”

Knows Men Enough Respect Flesh Respectable Creeps Scoundrels Respectability Respectable Man

Author:Joseph de Maistre

“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

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Author:William P. Merrill

“Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.”

Giving Causes Havens Respectable Man Easy Living

Author:William P. Merrill

“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.”

People Men Feelings Lying Names Causes Brain Ideals Sacred Tyranny Torture Sinner Tyrants Virtuous Finest Respectable Respectable Man

Book:After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel

Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel

“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.”

Men Literature United Respect Mere Selfish Dull Commerce Respectable Respectability Selfish Men Respectable Man

Book:Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson

Source: Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson

“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.”

Men Play Fun Pleasure Fit Degrees Laughter Jokes Horse Fellows Loud Merit Contempt Familiarity Respectable Merry Respectable Man

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters