Immorality Quote by David Mitchell

Private lives are more important than public reputations.

— G.K. Chesterton

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

It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust…

— Ravi Zacharias

Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a…

— Sean Penn

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

— John Tillotson

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of…

— Blaise Pascal

Morals are private. Decency is public.

— Rita Mae Brown

Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private. ª

— Myles Munroe

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and…

— Neil Abercrombie

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

— Max Anders

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

— Logan Pearsall Smith