A Respectable Woman Quotes

#1. When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

Honore De Balzac

#2. The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

Ne-Yo

#3. You're a respectable woman, dearie, and her reputation is a woman's wealth."
"Her wealth," Tenar repeated in the same blank way; then she said it again: "Her wealth. Her treasure. Her hoard. Her value ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.

Jasmin Darznik

#5. The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

Stephen King

#6. Maybe I could. Maybe I couldn't. I wasn't going to, and that was the main thing.

Mark Lawrence

#7. They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.

Austin O'Malley

#8. Couches and tables and beds don't make a home. Home is where you feel less alone.

A. Lynn

#9. I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

Adam Clayton Powell III

#10. I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.

Joanna Russ

#11. The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

Jonathan Swift

#12. Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother.

Victor Hugo

#13. Throwing water balloons wakes you up!

Kevin Jonas

#14. Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would."
~ A Woman of Fortune

Kellie Coates Gilbert

#17. Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

Sacha Guitry

#18. A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Jane Austen

#19. I'm a thoroughly respectable woman."
"You don't kiss like one.

Ruthie Knox

#20. My position is that you do not have to practice a religion in order to have a religion.

Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

#21. Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#22. If she'd known him better, she might've tried to explain to Will that life never lets you hide. Plant, animal, or human - life forced them all to grow and learn. The more you tried to run, the harder your path got, and you'd still have to travel it.

Cornelia Funke

#23. It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

Karen Essex

#24. Your little r changes the status of a single lady 'Ms' into a respectable lady 'Mrs'. Man, you make the difference!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. Fitz did not censor her mail but, as the head of the family, he had the right to read any letter addressed to a female relative living in his house. No respectable woman would object.

Ken Follett

#26. It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.

Kanye West

#27. The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

Catherine Bell

#28. She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram, but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respectable mother of nine children on a small income.

Jane Austen

#29. The extraordinary deference paid to physicians and their judgment preserved the idea that the woman's desire to end a pregnancy was not enough in itself, it had to be approved by a respectable authority figure, at the time almost always a man.

Katha Pollitt

#30. Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

Anna Deavere Smith

#31. It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42

Alaa Al Aswany

#32. Nostalgia is a lane of calm comfort, charming even a complacent heart!

Balroop Singh

#33. You know that deep down, a tiny part of that proper, respectable woman you are, wants to visit that reckless, sexy, uninhibited place inside you that's begging to get out. A place I can undoubtedly help you find.

K. Bromberg

#34. Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was design, art, everywhere; a change of some sort had undoubtedly taken place.

Virginia Woolf

#35. I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson