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Letter "R" » respectable
«`Bourgeois', I observed, `is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent.'»
Author: Anthony Hope
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apply, aristocracy, decent, epithet, epithets, observed, respectable, riff, riffs
«All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both»
«Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.»
«During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.»
Author: Howard Thurman
(Activist, Clergyman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
guise, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading, patriotism, respectable
«Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business»
Author: Robert Rice
| About:
Crime
| Keywords:
behavior, considered, extension, extensions, legitimate, logical, respectable
«Don't forget your great guns which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings»
Author: Frederick The Great
| Keywords:
respectable
«Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
America and Americans,
Football,
Sin
| Keywords:
respectable, sinfulness, sociologist, sociologists
«Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime»
«DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. --Mumfrey Mappel»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abandoned, Advances, cleanly, comprise, comprises, comprising, daughters, delusion, denial, fancies, Father of, goodly, gross, hail, respectable, self-denial, Sons and Daughters, topsy-turvy, Topsy
«Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
affections, ample, appraise, appraising, associations, attainment, auction, ballast, banner, cauldron, commerce, contributions, cutting room, cut out, deface, defaced, degraded, Fair dealing, flag down, gauge, gauged, gauging, good nature, gruel, idle talk, intent, knocked, measures, melted, overboard, pollute, pollutes, polluting, put up, rag, respectable, slab, Stars and Stripes, striped, talk down, theft, thefts, their talk, thick, venture, weighed, weighed down, worthless
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