Respectable Quotes

“I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest treasures in your life. You may have moved on, but your children have not. If you can’t be her soulmate, then at least be thoughtful. Whom your children love should always be someone that you acknowledge with kindness. Your children notice everything and will follow your example.”
― Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask for a More Vibrant Marriage

“All my problems bow before my stubbornness.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“If a person loves you but doesn't respect you then it can not be a real love. It is not possible to love them without respecting them.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense.”
― Amit Kalantri

“People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.”
― Amit Kalantri

“I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren’t prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

“If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Once, while at a party in London, the editor of the literary reviews page of a major newspaper struck up a conversation with me, and we chatted pleasantly until he asked what I did for a living. “I write comics,” I said; and I watched the editor’s interest instantly drain away, as if he suddenly realized he was speaking to someone beneath his nose.
Just to be polite, he followed up by inquiring, “Oh, yes? Which comics have you written?” So I mentioned a few titles, which he nodded at perfunctorily; and I concluded, “I also did this thing called Sandman.” At that point he became excited and said, “Hang on, I know who you are. You’re Neil Gaiman!” I admitted that I was. “My God, man, you don’t write comics,” he said. “You write graphic novels!”
He meant it as a compliment, I suppose. But all of a sudden I felt like someone who’d been informed that she wasn’t actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening.
This editor had obviously heard positive things about Sandman; but he was so stuck on the idea that comics are juvenile he couldn’t deal with something good being done as a comic book. He needed to put Sandman in a box to make it respectable.”
― Hy Bender, The Sandman Companion

“I want people to respect me and not just my position.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".”
― Amit Kalantri

“Be patient when you have nothing, be polite when you have everything.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone.”
― Amit Kalantri

“People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals.”
― Amit Kalantri

“...it appears to me, the doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelyhood pursue.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

“Cooper grinned. “You should listen to me, man. After all, I’ve got a way with the ladies.”
When Judd said nothing, I realized he wasn’t even looking at Cooper. Everyone followed his gaze until we realized he was glaring at Mac.
Tucker laughed for the simple reason that he was hammered. Maddy rubbed his face and they started making out.
Bailey rolled her eyes. “What did Mac do? Should I kick his ass?”
Cooper patted his sister. “You could so take him too, midget.”
Nuzzling Judd, I ignored Cooper tugging my shirt as if to separate me from my man.
“I never liked him even a little bit.”
“You touched his arm.”
Bailey stepped closer and slapped Cooper’s hand off me. “Judd, the only way to make things right is to cut off Mac’s arm and feed it to our dogs.”
“Sounds about right,” Judd muttered, still glaring at Mac who moved around the large packed family room as if trying to dodge the eyes on him.
“Bailey,” I whispered, giving her the look.
“What I meant was that Tawny is all kinds of loyal and shit, so cutting off Mac’s arm, while fun, isn’t necessary. Trust your woman.”
“I do trust her,” Judd muttered. “I still want to stab Mac’s face.”
“Yeah, that takes me back,” Cooper said, grinning at Farah who frowned. Rolling his eyes, he sighed. “Trust your woman. You know, what the dipshit said.”
“Don’t call her a dipshit,” I told Cooper who glared down at me. “I’m not having a staring contest with you.”
“Cause you’d lose.”
“Farah,” I said and she wrapped her arms around Cooper who sighed.  
Seeing a way to fix my other problem, I hugged Judd to me. As he looked down and grinned, I murmured, “Pay attention to me.”
Exhaling hard, Judd caressed my face. “Sorry, but that guy had your fingers on him. I feel like I should make an example of him, but I won’t. That wouldn’t be respectable.”
Bailey leaned in and whispered, “Are you training him too?”
“I’m training everyone,” I whispered back.”
― Bijou Hunter, Damaged and the Knight

“Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It's not respectable,' she said.
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything.”
― Edith Nesbit, THE PSAMMEAD TRILOGY – The Magical Adventures of Five Friends (Illustrated): Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet & The Story of the Amulet

“It's so respectable you could put it in a Christmas circular letter.”
― Helen Dunmore

“The estate stayed with me long after I moved elsewhere, partly in the form of a strange kind of vertigo when presented with opportunities and experiences I’d grown up assuming were far beyond my reach. I also felt its presence as early as my first term at university, when I got it into my head that everyone in the student union bar wanted to hear a version of my life story which crossed the “books on prescription” section of the library with Monty Python’s Four Yorkshiremen sketch.”
― Lynsey Hanley, Respectable: The Experience of Class

“The public will either love you, or hate you; plain and simple. You determine if they respect you. That’s what matters. The rest is superficial.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings

“We have never been respectable yet; don't let's begin now.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton