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Letter "R" » respectability
«A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.»
«Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability»
Author: Sam Keen
(motivational speaker, Philosopher, Spiritual mentor, Writer)
| About:
Respectability
| Keywords:
laziness, respectability, summer
«Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.»
«Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
awfully, keep up, mean, respectability
«It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.»
«To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
middle class, obviously, respectability, sordid
«There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abasement, ferocious, hammer, join forces, pin, pricks, rebels, respectability, social order, The Pin, waged
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