Respectable Man Quotes

• No sé cómo es un canalla, pero sé cómo es un hombre respetable, y es suficiente para que a uno se le pongan los pelos de punta.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Respeto, Hombres, Carne

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• I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Prejudice, Kind

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97

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• I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Honour You

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97

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• Un hombre meramente literario es un hombre aburrido; un hombre que es únicamente un hombre de negocios es un hombre egoísta; pero cuando la literatura y el comercio se unen, hacen un hombre respetable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Respect, Selfish, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.416

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• Las payasadas, los retozos, los frecuentes y ruidosos ataques de risa, las bromas y la familiaridad indiscriminada, hundirán tanto el mérito como el conocimiento en un grado de desprecio. A lo sumo componen un tipo alegre; y un tipo alegre nunca fue un hombre respetable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Horse, Laughter, Fun

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

  Voltaire

  Character, Men, Reputation

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• A menos que te entregues a una gran causa, ni siquiera has empezado a vivir.

  William P. Merrill

  Giving, Causes, Easy Living

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• Los hombres son respetables sólo en la medida en que respetan.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Army, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). "Selecciones básicas de Emerson: Ensayos, Poemas y Apotegmas"

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• A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Men, May

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• For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Thinking, Fool

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.230, e-artnow

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• An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.

  John Adams

  Money, Men, Simplicity

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• Los hombres y mujeres respetables que se contentan con la vida buena y fácil se están perdiendo algunas de las cosas más importantes de la vida. A menos que te entregues a alguna gran causa ni siquiera has empezado a vivir.

  William P. Merrill

  Vida, Hombres, Dar

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• Si queremos que se respete la ley, primero debemos hacer que la ley sea respetable.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Respect, Law, Desire

  "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1996.

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• No me preocupa si te gusto o no... Todo lo que pido es que me respetes como ser humano.

  Jackie Robinson

  Motivación, Cambio, Béisbol

  "Los años del impacto y el legado, 1941, 1947, 1968". p. 100. Libro de Fred Pulis, 2000.

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• No me consideres ahora como una elegante hembra que pretende acosarte, sino como una criatura racional que dice la verdad desde su corazón.

  Jane Austen

  Honesty, Heart, Female

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.302, Wordsworth Editions

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• De cuantas más cosas se avergüenza un hombre, más respetable es.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Respect, Integrity, Character

  El hombre y Supermán (1903) acto 1

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• Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

  Confucius

  Men, Lessons, Joyful

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• The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

  Michelle Malkin

  Men, Rags, Hairspray

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• The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mentira, Hombres, Nombres

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.133, Ivan R. Dee

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• I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Besar, Hombres, Pensar

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• I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidatesas the only available one, thus proving that he is himself available for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Voting

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