Reputation Quote by Charles M De Talleyrand

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The reputation of a man is like his shadow: it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than…

— French Proverb

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but…

— Djuna Barnes

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

— Victor Hugo

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

— Henry David Thoreau

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

— George R. R. Martin

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

— Djuna Barnes

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can?…

— Henry David Thoreau

“There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their…

— George Eliot