[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.
He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?
I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage. . . will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.
Respectable people. . . What bastards!
I would never rep Versace. I can't stand her. I think she makes disgusting clothes. Calvin [Klein] is like, snore! Who wears Calvin Klein? I'm not dissing him. I think he's built an amazing, respectable business, but I would never want to work for Calvin Klein, ever.
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.
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.
I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.