respectability

1.

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

The myths have always condemned those who looked back. Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

3.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. It may be graphic, mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury is quoted as having pronounced it the test of truth -- a ridiculous assertion, for many a solemn fallacy has undergone centuries of ridicule with no abatement of its popular acceptance. What, for example, has been more valorously derided than the doctrine of Infant Respectability?

- Ambrose Bierce

4.

Respect starts with yourself.

- Proverb

5.

We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.

- Voltaire

6.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

- Rice-Davies, Mandy

7.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

- Dali, Salvador

8.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

- Dangerfield, Rodney

9.

The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

- Kuhn, Maggie

10.

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.

- Maistre, Joseph De

11.

The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

- Early, Gerald

12.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

- Cleaver, Eldridge

13.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

- Sterne, Laurence

14.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

- Gardner, John W.

15.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

- Aesop

16.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

- Graham, Billy

18.

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 lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

- Oscar Wilde

19.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

- Malcolm X

20.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

- Mills, C. Wright