Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

— Mark Twain

“Hey, maybe you could invite the new guy to your party." Sarah suggested. Mark rolled his eyes. "Sure, I'll just ask the good-looking stranger…

— K.S. Marsden

“In my family nudity just doesn’t exist; I’m pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way.”

— Huston Piner

“On Algebra - "We're a month into it, and I'm planning to start a real protest movement, one to have X and Y removed…

— Huston Piner

“It's a matter of dishonour, and when it gets out, which it's bound to, this will be the one act you'll be remembered for.…

— Ian McEwan

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves…

— Tom Wolfe

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going,…

— Martin Freeman

Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them

— Frank Tyger

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

— Felix Dennis

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

— Nate Silver

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves…

— Aristotle Onassis

Budgets can make or break reputations and governments.

— Priti Patel

“What saves doctors' reputations is the fact that many illnesses are benign and that people can go on living with a large number of…

— Gabriel Chevallier

I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations.

— John Balance

It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best…

— Jose Saramago