Respectable Quotes

What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

It is [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the World are turned upon them.

We're like bad architecture and old whores. Eventually you become respectable.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable.