There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think 'SNL' gets a weird reputation just because it's been on TV for so long, like 'It's so competitive and cutthroat!'… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of… — Donald Grant Mitchell Copy Share Image
Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for… — Eike Batista Copy Share Image
The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark,… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If somebody has a bad reputation on the internet or if they have a really good reputation on the internet, I don't… — Emma Chamberlain Copy Share Image
She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So… — Positive K Copy Share Image
It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Viewers have a way of remembering the celebrity while forgetting the product. I did not know this when I paid Eleanor Roosevelt… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
It was a bit of a shock playing against Millwall. I knew the reputation of English football was tough, but my first… — Christian Eriksen Copy Share Image
Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room,… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
I always think the same: English players don't generally leave England, which is strange. But of course, the Premier League's got the… — Gary Cahill Copy Share Image
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these… — James Payn Copy Share Image
“If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000… — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Its females that will do anything to get attention, that would flaunt their bodies to anyone and everyone to make their way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Infuriated by the sniping from within his own administration and encouraged by Federalist partisans, Washington could have used the powers of his… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
If you're wanting me to besmirch somebody's reputation so that there would be some sort of division created out of it, I'm… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea… — Victor Kiam Copy Share Image
Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't… — J. J. Watt Copy Share Image
