There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
Charles Baudelaire

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Anthony Trollope

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
Kinky Friedman

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.
Robert Fortune

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

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer