Quotes About Reputation

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

That is Nick Colt, otherwise known as bad news.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

Innocent or guilty, a Lannister pays his debts.

The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie, Lord Tywin Lannister in the end did not shit gold.

Less reliable tales also reached his ears, of a dwarf witch who haunted a hill in the riverlands, and a dwarf whore in King's Landing renowned for coupling with dogs. His own sweet sister had told him of the last, even offering to find him a bitch in heat if he cared to try it out. When he asked politely if she were referring to herself, Cersei had thrown a cup of wine in his face.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

or maybe people just like to overpraise a famous name.

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

Seventeen, and beautiful, and already a legend. Half the girls in the Seven Kingdom want to bed him, and all the boys want to be him.

Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them cold clear water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes.

Her name was Tolly Mune, but in the stories they call her all sorts of things.

I will not suffer to be called a whore!" Why, sister, he never claims Jaime paid you.

It was not like to win him back his lost honor, but the notion of keeping faith when they all expected betrayal amused him more than he could say.

The girl that they once cheered as the Realm's Delight had grown into a grasping and vindictive woman, men said, a queen as cruel as any king before her. One wit named Rhaenyra "King Maegor with teats," and for a hundred years thereafter "Maegor's Teats" was a common curse amongst Kingslanders.

Expect nothing of Walder Frey, and you will never be surprised.

They would not love me living, so let them dread me dead.

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.