Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
quote by Shelley Winters
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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
quote by Amiri Baraka
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
quote by E. Stanley Jones
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My life has been one long descent into respectability.
quote by Mandy Rice-Davies
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It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
quote by Kenneth L. Pike
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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
quote by Mason Cooley
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Greek-tragedy Funny
when all things are shed
like one takes off one’s clothes
and removes the make-up
or as one discards one’s body
as one kicks the bucket
in the good old-fashioned way
all this seriousness
is quite funny;
all this wisdom is
indecently foolish;
all this respectability
is unworthy;
all this meaning
is without content:
one’s importance is laughable
as when one laughs
in the midst of
too much stage-tragedy;
it’s greek-tragedy funny
poem by Raj Arumugam
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
quote by David Herbert Lawrence
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
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We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
quote by Whitney Young
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I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
quote by Benjamin F. Wade
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The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
quote by William Bligh
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
quote by Oscar Wilde
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The available one is cheap.
Respectability lets me to admire.
Agreeability leads me to befriend.
Accessibility allows me to infatuation.
Attainability helps me to get intimacy.
Availability only sanctions me sex,
Which comes from the cheap product
16.02.2000, Palakkad
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Gold Diggers Claim Jumping Policy
gold diggers dream wearing wealth respectability cloaks
mine mind math amazing strike hitting mother lode veins
claim jumping is simply good sense option par for course
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Drug Scene
Who cares about the middle classes
Sitting on their opulent arses,
Drinking wine and snorting coke,
Respectability a joke?
This is the land of the living dead
Who put their children safe to bed
And feed their head, feed their head.....
poem by John Thorkild Ellison
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Things Are Getting Better
Well I worked for a week and I got no pay.
(things getting better.)
Well my babys coming back home to stay
(things getting better.)
Well shes coming back home, but I havent got a dime
(things getting better.)
But Ive got my love to keep me fine[? ].
(things getting better.)
Oh-oh
Things getting better.
Things getting better.
Well since my babys been away,
(things getting better.)
Well things got worse from day to day.
(things getting better.)
Well now my babys come back to me.
(things getting better.)
Yeah, itll get better, wait and see.
(things getting better.)
Oh-oh
Things getting better.
Things getting better.
Oh-oh
Things getting better.
Things getting better.
Well I pawned my watch and I sold my car.
(things getting better.)
The money Ive got wouldnt get me far.
(things getting better.)
But I dont mind now that youve packed.
(things getting better.)
Its a fact, that
Things getting better.
Things getting better.
Oh-oh
Things getting better.
Things getting better.
song performed by by Kinks
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Your Company
The iron in the flush burning fire,
A gleam and glow does acquire;
Fully transforms and is afire,
Losing its dense solid attire.
If you ‘re caught in the nasty mire,
Of the low and mean whom none can admire;
In life, to step higher you cannot desire,
And to ascend to lofty echelons you can't aspire.
Let us ever be in the company of gentle nobility,
Who will haul us with them to high dignity;
Raising us to tall standards of versatility,
And to higher echelons of respectability.
poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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Out of military boots
Out of military boots
I come moulded to be a different person
and in nature could finally find some serenity
with the hot sun blazing above me
catching the birdcalls on the breeze.
From battlefields I did rise,
astounded to be still living
with hundreds of stories
of fools and very brave men
and the silence is almost deafening
with no rattle of any light-machinegun
no exploding rocket propelled shells
and I dream about a world
that is free form any disharmony
where the judgement day,
the outbreak of war,
exists no more
and everyone is free
to live a life in respectability.
poem by Gert Strydom
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