Quotes About Reputation

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

A man will be known by his books.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.