Quotes About Reputation

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

Do not give me more credit than I deserve, and you will never have to revise your first impression of me.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in town.

Henry had arranged for her to go to 'Jericho', a house he leased from St Lawrence's Priory at Blackmore in Essex; it was a house with a poor reputation, where the King maintained a private suite.

Josephine Tey's novel, The Daughter of Time (1951)

the fantasy, power, songfulness, beauty, and humor of the music itself has been not so much overlooked as rendered secondary to the discussion of it by experts. Instead of his reputation's creating curiosity about his work, his work has been buried by (and beneath) his reputation.

The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material.

There's nothing worth less than what men think of you after you're back in the mud.

Everyone likes me," said Caul Shivers, the most feared man in the North.

A bank with a reputation for mercy is like a whore with a reputation for chastity – one fears they won't get the job done.

As far as I'm concerned you can fuck whomever you please, though my general observation has been that, as far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on.

You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.

I'm no high judge of righteousness." "Who is?" "But I find this to be a good thing." "Don't let anyone know, it might ruin my reputation." Yarvi saw an old woman glaring at him from across the square, and he smiled back, and waved, and watched her scuttle away. "It seems I've become the villain of this piece.

far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on." "Huh.

Un banco con reputación de benevolencia es como una puta con reputación de castidad, siempre temes que no vayan a hacer el trabajo.

Everyone says you're the most untrustworthy bitch in the whole North.' 'No one should know better than you what the things everyone says are worth. Truth is, I only care about keeping my word to folk I like. I seem untrustworthy because there are only seven of those outside the hills.' She made a fist of her tattooed hand, trembling tight. 'To those seven, I am a rock.

I make no judgements on hearsay.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.