Quotes About Reputation

A man in public life expects to be sneered at—it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of himself.

Mr. Wititterly, it should be observed, was accustomed to owe small accounts, and to leave them owing. All men have some little pleasant way of their own; and this was Mr. Wititterly's.

A person is never known till a person is proved.

How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are "very negative"?

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

Classics are books that everybody talks about, and nobody reads.

CELEBRITY. One who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

If you're more concerned about our reputation than about me, then I'll just withdraw and not have a family anymore. p.32

Such public shaming is rampant and sometimes appropriate, but unfortunately, in recent years, shaming has morphed into coordinated reputation murders, and anyone who is slightly insensitive or not PC enough can be led to a public character lynching without due process.

How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I'm about as erudite as a traffic cop. I like to know things; what's so two-headed peculiar about that?

Her mother used to call her erimitsu, "clever one" in their own dialect... Kasia had a reputation already that made her almost unmarriageable at home. Too clever by half, and too thin by more than that in a tribe where women were valued for full hips and soft figures -- promise of comfort in the long cold and children easily birthed.

The customs officials never ask for gifts but they expect them. There is a fairly precise scale of how much to give at different levels. If you are too generous with someone lower down the ranks of bureaucrats it will often become known, and those higher up will be unhappy. Not only will they expect more themselves, they will be legitimately disturbed that someone is interfering with norms and protocols. It is not for reckless Jaddites to disturb an orderly system.

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

His was one of those well-groomed reputations that get the most out of everything; any unusual holiday acquires the character of an exploration, and though the explorer takes care to do nothing really original, the public does not know this

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

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

If you follow someone who's universally viewed as having impeccable character and strong integrity, then you're likely to be viewed the same. If you willingly follow someone who's considered dishonest and unethical, your own image is tarnished.

the Southern soldier will go down in history dishonored.

Grant's reputation as a heavy drinker is based very little on evidence and a great deal on gossip, envy, and vengefulness.

NEW-AGENT TRAINING at the FBI Academy in Quantico, sometimes called "Club Fed," was turning out to be a challenging, arduous, and tense program. For the most part, I liked it, and I was making an effort to keep any skepticism down. But I had entered the Bureau with a reputation for catching pattern killers, and I

Oh, hello, Mr. and Mrs. Buttington. Fanny has told me so much about you.

Actually, it was more like they thought I was going to take off all my clothes and streak through the hallway.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.