Quotes About Reputation

The most just death is that which is most willed. Our lives depend on the will of others, but death on ourselves alone. There is nothing to which we should apply ourselves more than this. Reputation has no place here and it is folly to think of it. Life is servitude if we lack the freedom to die.

It is true that whenever we have been told a great many interesting things about a person whom we have not yet met, our visual fantasy conjures up a picture of him beforehand, dipping liberally into the storehouse of our most precious and most romantic memories.

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

People are always going to say stuff about you and there are always going to be crazy rumours out there, but as long as you know the truth, you're fine.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.