Reputation Quotes · Page 21

Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

— Henry Kissinger

My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.

— William Rosenberg

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

— Jules Renard

You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

— Markus Zusak

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

— Lord Byron

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

— Marianne Faithfull

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

— Laurence J. Peter

What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.

— David Starkey

“Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would…

— Nancy Werlin

I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

— Khoi Vinh

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would…

— Henry David Thoreau

I've been asked whether I was worried about getting a reputation as a firefighter and it doesn't bother me.

— Nigel Pearson

Truth is...worry about ur character & not ur reputation because ur character is who u are & ur reputation is only what…

— Anonymous

Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing

— George Carman

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and…

— Daniel Suarez

Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the…

— Baltasar Gracian

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers…

— Anonymous

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small…

— Anonymous

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's…

— Daryl Gates

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in…

— Orson Scott Card

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme…

— Baruch Spinoza

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

— Pliny the Elder

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

— Lisa Lampanelli

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

— Sylvester Stallone

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

— Thomas Paine

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

— Matthew Hale

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

— Joe Torre

After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots.

— Goldie Hawn

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

— Elizabeth Arden

Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!

— Publilius Syrus

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

— Jose Iturbi

“A guy's reputation is the first thing you hear about”

— Jerry Della Femina

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

— Eliza Griswold

“Remember that your reputation is made by others, but your character is made by you!”

— Napoleon Hill (Author

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

— Sienna Miller

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.

— Max Anders