Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
~By William Wycherley ~
When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
~By Julius Erving ~
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
~By Wietse Venema ~
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
~By Samuel Butler ~
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
~By Jane Pauley ~
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
~By Ben Jonson ~
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
~By Laurence Housman ~
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.
~By David Blunkett ~
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
~By Myrtle Reed ~
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
In those days reputation was a big thing. If you could win a game before you went out, win it. That could mean winning it in the papers by saying certain things or by not saying certain things. You got very crafty at the game.
~By Tommy Smith ~
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
~By Socrates ~
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
~By Robert Benchley ~
You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
~By Liz Smith ~
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
~By Peter Singer ~
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
~By John Wooden ~
The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
~By Warren Buffett ~
A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.
~By James Atlas ~
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
~By King Hussein I ~
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.
~By Katie Price ~
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
~By Joseph Hall ~
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
~By Epicurus ~
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
~By Brian Koslow ~
Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.
~By John N. Mitchell ~
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
~By Jules Renard ~
We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
~By Ethel Merman ~
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
~By Stockwell Day ~
But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
~By John Gay ~
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
~By Joshua Slocum ~
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
~By Henry Anatole Grunwald ~
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
~By Petrarch ~
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
~By Eli Whitney ~
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.
~By David Douglass ~
The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.
~By Kim Novak ~
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
~By Saul Alinsky ~
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
~By Ingvar Kamprad ~
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.
~By Lord Chandos ~
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
~By Charles Simmons ~
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
~By Helen Rowland ~
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
~By Stephanie Tubbs Jones ~
My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
~By Thomas Kretschmann ~
I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
~By Voltaire ~
I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
~By Calvin Klein ~
I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.
~By John George Nicolay ~
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.
~By Brian Koslow ~
All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.
~By Ramman Kenoun ~
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
~By Sam Houston ~
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
~By C. L. R. James ~
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
~By Nathaniel Branden ~
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
~By Victor Kiam ~
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
~By Epictetus ~
It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.
~By Fred Savage ~
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
~By Kate Bush ~
Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
~By Richard Jewell ~
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
~By David Ogilvy ~
That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!
~By Harry Nilsson ~
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
~By Matthew Hale ~
Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
~By Peter Benchley ~
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
~By Richard Russo ~
I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful.
~By Nia Long ~
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
~By James Payn ~
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
~By Jane Alexander ~
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
~By Sallust ~
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
I am better than my reputation.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
~By Cat Stevens ~
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
~By Anthony Holden ~
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