Quotes About Reputation

I assume you know me from somewhere," he said. "Did I ruin your sister's reputation? If so, I'm afraid she was quite forgettable.

All that remains of me now is a rumour of beauty.

A mí no me quedaba mucho tiempo como testigo del hundimiento de aquella gran institución, tan antigua y reputada. Mi periodo de formación iba tocando a su fin; sólo viví la situación del tribunal cameral en el Tercer Reich durante apenas unos meses. Fueron meses tristes, meses de despedida en más de un sentido.

J'ai une réputation de drogué, mais je ne le suis pas. Le jour où tu me verras boire un verre de Coca, j'aurai plongé. On ne peut pas mélanger les deux. Moi, je fume, je bois et je tringle : voilà une trilogie intéressante.

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

The F-word is 'famous ' the C-word is 'celebrity' and S-word is 'star ' in my book. The other three words are fine - you can say those. But 'famous ' 'celebrity' and 'star ' I think, are misused.

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Wherever the name (repute) and benefit meet, the people will go in this direction.… Farming is what the people consider bitter; war is what the people consider dangerous. Yet they brave what they consider bitter and perform what they consider dangerous because of the calculation [of a name and benefit]. … When benefits come from land, the people exhaust their strength; when the name comes from war, the people are ready to die.

They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and Lincoln became at once what he would remain for them, "the man who freed the slaves." He would go down to posterity, not primarily as the Preserver of the Republic-which he was-but as the Great Emancipator, which he was not.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

I heard some interesting things about your performance up here." "I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.

You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small matters as they are.

She was Sophia Fry, though her name was rarely used. She was known by her relatives, when she was known as anything at all, and perhaps by their servants too, as the mouse.

Miss Daisy Morrison, behaving so scandalously on her very first public appearance among the beau monde, would not easily be forgiven. But of course a

What does a man have to do to be taken at his word in this town? Do I have to shoot someone? Because I am making a list!

She was a big ol' ho," Riley told her brother. "She put out more than the Tab machine in the Tri-Delta house.

The hyena has a reputation for being a thief and a coward.