Hanif Kureishi

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

English Playwright

Hari Nef

It's time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.

American Actress

Kenneth L. Pike

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

American Sociologist

Janelle Monae

I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.

American Musician

D. H. Lawrence

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

English Writer

Chuck Noll

Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.

American Coach

George Bernard Shaw

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Irish Playwright

Mason Cooley

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

American Writer

Shelley Winters

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

Sam Keen

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

American Author

Concerns someone's actions being approved by the majority in their community or society.

Social Acceptance

Recognizes that the concept may vary greatly in different cultures and communities.

Cultural Sensitivity

Can change over time or due to specific actions changing public perspective.

Perspective Shifts

Refers to personal behavior aligning with what is socially endorsed.

Behavior Standard

May imply conforming to societal expectations or norms.

Conformity Implication

The concept is dynamic; modern views of respectability may differ from past ones.

Modern Contexts

 won in the end they got their title of respectability and also the Senate's other worry the appearance of singularity well it was a singularity back then but now do you know how many nations have a president a hundred and forty-seven all because they want to

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 in their transparent covers that they were delivered in. But what's more difficult to navigate is the emotional landscape between the generations, and the old adage that with age comes wisdom is not true. With age comes the veneer of respectability