#respectability

My life has been one long descent into respectability. ↗

— Mandy Rice-Davies

#descent #into #life #long #my life

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#begin #close #head #respectability #shades

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#coexist #deep #deep desire #desire #economics

Respectable people... What bastards! ↗

— Émile Zola

#respect

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#better #church #desire #ordinary #really

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#now #over #respectability #sixty #toward