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Quotes About Reputation

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Who are you, then?" "My name is Sherlock Holmes." "Good Lord!" "You have heard of me, I see.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?' 'No, I have not.' 'Well, well, such is fame!
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
No tiene importancia alguna lo que usted haga en este mundo. La cuestión es lo que pueda usted hacer creer a los demás que usted ha realizado.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
O que você traz neste mundo não tem nenhuma importância - replicou meu companheiro com amargura. - A questão é o que os outros acreditam que você fez.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The weather falls more gently on some places than on others, the world looks down more paternally on some people. Some spots are proverbially warm, and keep, through falling snow, their untarnished reputations as summer resorts; some people are automatically above suspicion.
~ Shirley Jackson
My father had a good reputation. Not that anyone ever thought of it when he was alive.
~ Sholom Aleichem
His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.
~ Sidney Sheldon
said. 'To make someone lose face is unforgivable.' The
~ Simon Winchester
Set your deeds throughout the world that everyone may greet you.
~ Simpson
The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!
~ Sinclair Lewis
Reprove thy friend privately: commend him publicly.
~ Solon
Grant me from the blessed gods prosperity, and] from all mankind the possession ever of good repute; [and that I may thus be a delight to my friends, and an affliction to my foes, but the first revered], by the other beheld with dread.
~ Solon
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
~ Sophocles
Young people who were relaxed about posting every detail of their life on Facebook become a lot less relaxed when they realise just how transparent their life has become to future employers.
~ Geoff Mulgan
O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.
~ George Carlin
Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]
~ George Herbert
Once your reputation's done/ You can live a life of fun
~ Gregor von Rezzori
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'
~ John Wesley
My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario, ' and 'Mario Who?'
~ Mario Van Peebles
Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person
~ Constance Friday