| 55 Reputation Quotes
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“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“My reputation grows with every failure.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
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“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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“Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like”
Chinese Proverbs Quotes |
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“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
Mae West Quotes |
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“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
John Wooden Quotes |
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“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of
reputation but by himself.”
Richard Bentley Quotes Source: in Monk's "Life of Bentley", vol. I, ch. VI
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“And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: Apology
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“To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis
est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Officiis (1, 28)
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“No book was ever written down by any but itself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Spiritual Laws
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“Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation.
Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of
me.
[Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.
Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Spiritual Laws
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“A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Fables--The Fox at the Point of Death (l. 46)
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“For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
[Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem
Rufe.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Hermann und Dorothea (VII, 93)
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“I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the
popular breath may chance to raise him.
[Ger., Ich halte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt
Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben mochte.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Iphigenia auf Tauris (II, 1, 140)
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“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met
on the street.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Iphigenia auf Tauris (II, 1, 140)
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“Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on
suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the
voters.”
Mrs. Anna Jameson Quotes Source: Memoirs and Essays--Washington Allston
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“Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: Specimens of Jerrold's Wit--Reputations
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“That man is thought a dangerous knave,
Or zealot plotting crime,
Who for advancement of his kind
Is wiser than his time.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: Specimens of Jerrold's Wit--Reputations
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“How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Essays--Of Glory
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“To be pointed out with the finger.”
Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (I, l. 28)
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“In various talk th' instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;
One speaks the glory of the British queen,
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (pt. III, l. 11), this stanza not found in his printed works
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“The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the
reputation I bear.
[Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich
Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: Marie Stuart (III, 4, 208)
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