Crime Quote by Laetitia Pilkington

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

— William Shakespeare

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all unless…

— William Shakespeare

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

— Lord Chesterfield

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the…

— Samuel Johnson

For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on…

— James Packer

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

— Seneca the Younger

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of…

— Thomas Carlyle

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right…

— James Gunn