Respectability

People like nonfiction presented

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don’t have to think about whether it’s true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness. Errol Morris

Here in America, marriage

Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than \”married\” is considered temporary and not worthy of honor. Elizabeth Gilbert

Respectability is the dickey

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization. Elbert Hubbard

Ambition is a passion,

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character Edward Bates

She wanted, passionately and

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. Edith Wharton

Tell a scoundrel, three

Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of \”respectability\” in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that … Read more

In the ordinary church,

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

In our Ashrams of

In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call \”The Morning of the Open Heart,\” in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: … Read more

I hated the idleness,

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness. E. M. Forster

Respectability offends my taste.

Respectability offends my taste. Friedrich Nietzsche