Quotes for All
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no … Read more
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. Eric Hoffer
Respectable people… What bastards! Emile Zola
But I intend to make you respectable. Elizabeth Hoyt
Since when was genius found respectable? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The devil’s most devilish when respectable. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives. Elizabeth Ashley
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident. Elbert Hubbard
The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,–persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure … Read more
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius might furnish the subject of a sincere and ample panegyric. The wisdom of his laws and the success of his arms rendered his administration respectable in the eyes both of his … Read more