Reputation Quotes

1049 Reputation quotes by 771 unique authors

Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy… — Wayne D. Dosick
Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. — Friedrich Schiller
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. — Douglas William Jerrold
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. — Douglas William Jerrold
Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as… — Baltasar Gracian
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them;… — William Hazlitt
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No book was ever written down by any but itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. — Eric Hoffer
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines… — Samuel Johnson
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,… — Alexander Pope
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. — Agnes Repplier
And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word. — Charles Churchill
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions.… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation… — Thomas Keller
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket,… — Norbert Wiener
There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly,… — Abraham Maslow
If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation. — Philip Massinger
My reputation has grown slowly. — Stanley Kubrick
It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation… — Joyce Carol Oates

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