Quotes About Reputation

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

An honest man is respected by all parties.

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!