Respectability Quotes

My parents` lot had literally crawled away from the second world war, taking with them two vital commodities by way of a survival mechanism: respectability and security. It was odd, coming from a Christian household, but the big thing was about not being what they called "common". I got all that, "Don`t play with him, he`s common". I had a friend called Grenville Barker who`d come round sometimes and play football on the lawn, but not very often. And I wasn`t allowed to go to his home very often because they were working class. He was what my mother called a bad influence. Everything had to do with influence. My mother was desperate I should be properly influenced, have a proper, received accent, be sent away to school at eight. So all you can do is go into yourself, immerse yourself in your own life.

He was a real professional and one of the nicest, hardest-working public relations folks in racing. He was always working behind the scenes to gain more respectability and exposure.

And when that happens, Mexico will have really leapt forward to first-world respectability.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability