Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down!
Jonathan Swift
Quotes , Source: Journal of a Modern Lady (l. 185)
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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell
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It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
Source Unknown
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One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.
Abraham Lincoln
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I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
Mae West
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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
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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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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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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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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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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