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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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I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Antony at III, xi)
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I see my reputation is at stake;
My fame is shrewdly gored.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Achilles at III, iii)
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O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of
myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my
reputation!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii)
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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My dear dear lord,
The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation. That away,
Man are but gilded loam or painted clay.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Mowbray at I, i)
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Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too careless patient as thou art,
Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure
Of those physicians that first wounded thee.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best
teach it to dance.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Pliny the Elder
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Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!
Henry Rink
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I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
Mae West
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
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A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Joseph Hall
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