Respectability

(469 votes)   To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(462 votes)   Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(405 votes)   Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Aesop
620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

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(387 votes)   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.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(283 votes)   Men are respectable only as they respect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(268 votes)   We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(260 votes)   No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.

George Moore
1852-1933, Irish Writer

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(227 votes)   Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(218 votes)   Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(217 votes)   There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(110 votes)   The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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

Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

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(102 votes)   I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

Herbert Henry Lehman
1878-1963, American Banker, Politician, Philanthropist

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(97 votes)   If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.

Greek Proverbs
Sayings of Greek Origin

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