Quotes About Reputation

Trueba continued polishing his reputation as a rake, sowing the entire region with his bastard offspring, reaping hatred, and storing up sins that barely nicked him because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress.

There was no reason to fear the sea, only the living, because, despite their bad reputation, there was no evidence that the dead had ever attacked anyone; if anything, they were naturally timid

The last straw was when his granddaughter, who was seven years old at the time, went to the librarian at school and said "Have you heard of Isabel Allende?" And the librarian said: "Yes, yes, I've read some of her books." There was a pause, and then Anna said: "She's sleeping with my grandfather.

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

I read one article that called me the 'latest pretender to the Led Zeppelin throne.'... If I saw the guy I'd knock him out. Because that's not true - I'm not pretending anything. If my records sell, it's because of me.

He might have been in Led Zeppelin, but to me he was just dad.

My name has zero value.

When people think about me, that's all they think: 'He's crazy. He's psycho. He's this.' No, that was just my blog; that was Agent Zero; that was my persona that I was putting out there. And eventually, that all caught up with me.

It is the public which turns a raja into 'rank' and a hero into a zero.

In Scotland you can enter a comfort zone. I felt I had already developed a reputation there and felt it was important to prove I can play elsewhere.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.

Never hear anything bad about Canada, that's one thing - in fact, I guess it's the only thing.

A company is judged by the president it keeps.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.