Quotes About Reputation

But this is England, where the only crime is to be Found Out.

How strange is our mortal zest for fame. Perhaps it is the only way humans can be gods. We achieve immortality not through ambrosia and ichor but through history and reputation.

I have been praised and criticised, but never ignored.

When love invades your heart, you are empowered to endure deeper pain, willingly pay a greater cost, and run risks to your reputation for the sake of another.

I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.

I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.

Would you rather have people be impressed by who you are or respect who you've become?

The world around you know only that reflects on you, that is the success of a joker too.

People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Lawyers have us trained to believe nothing is airtight, any agreement can be broken, and that life is one big loophole. A handshake ends up as meaningless as an Enron audit. Heaven forbid the law be the law. Today, the law is whatever the client wants it to be. Today, we can sue anybody over anything. We can ruin a reputation with a simple allegation, trumpeting the canard worldwide on the Internet in seconds.

All you need in politics is name recognition, even if the name is shit.

We lie, cheat, and cut ethical corners quite often when we think we can get away with it, and then we use our moral thinking to manage our reputations and justify ourselves to others.

Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations.

universities, which ought to be forums for open debate, are developing a reputation for dogmatism and intolerance.

I'll praise Glaucon for the rest of the book as the guy who got it right—the guy who realized that the most important principle for designing an ethical society is to make sure that everyone's reputation is on the line all the time, so that bad behavior will always bring bad consequences.

We are well-armed for battle in a Machiavellian world of reputation manipulation, and one of our most important weapons is the delusion that we are non-combatants.

she'd heard he was some sort of karate honcho, occasionally

The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.

Era un cabaret de fama mundial, donde se habían aburrido los hombres más célebres de Europa y América.

los muertos por mal que lo hayan hecho siempre salen a hombros»