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It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of
reputation but by himself.
Author: Richard Bentley
Source: in Monk's "Life of Bentley", vol. I, ch. VI
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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
Author: Charles Churchill
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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (1, 28)
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No book was ever written down by any but itself.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.]
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Spiritual Laws
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A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
Author: John Gay
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.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
Author: Mrs. Anna Jameson
Source: Memoirs and Essays--Washington Allston
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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
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.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: Specimens of Jerrold's Wit--Reputations
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How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays--Of Glory
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To be pointed out with the finger.
Author: Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Marie Stuart (III, 4, 208)
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I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Antony at III, xi)
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I see my reputation is at stake;
My fame is shrewdly gored.
Author: William Shakespeare
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!
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down!
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Journal of a Modern Lady (l. 185)
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A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.
Author: Vietnamese Proverb
Source: None
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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Author: Margaret Mitchell
Source: None
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Author: St. Evermond
Source: None
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When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
Author: Arabian Proverb
Source: None
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Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Author: Isaac Asimov
Source: None
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Author: Pliny The Elder
Source: None
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!
Author: Henry Rink
Source: None
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A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.
Author: Francis Jeffery
Source: None
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I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
Author: Mae West
Source: None
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It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
Author: Source Unknown
Source: None
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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.
Author: John Wooden
Source: None
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Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
Author: Lord Jeffrey
Source: None
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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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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.
Author: Joseph Hall
Source: None
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Author: Mencius
Source: None
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Author: George Washington
Source: None
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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Author: Alexandre De Talleyrand-périgord
Source: None
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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