In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as…

“It's the thought that counts. I ought to know.”

— Stephenie Meyer

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.

— Jack Miner

“There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a…

— Price Collier

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

If a man's reputation can be destroyed in an afternoon by a secret kangaroo court, then we, too, can one day be propelled into…

— Peter Hitchens

He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds…

— Dean Koontz

Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies

— Arabian Proverb

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the…

— Ben Jonson

A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

— Joseph Addison

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want…

— John Todd

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The…

— William Hazlitt

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man's reputation is like a tower; hard to build, easy to collapse.

— Vikrant Parsai

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

— Madame de Stael