Top Respectability Quotes

It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John...

It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John...

James Baldwin

Tags: identity, identity confusion, identity crisis, individualism, race and racism in america, race relations, racism, racism and culture, racism in america, respect

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the...

Richard Halliburton

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the...

Richard Halliburton

Tags: adventure, beautiful, caprice, explore, freedom, indulgence, respectability, romantic, travel, travel writing

Respectability Definition

(n.) The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.