Quotes About Reputation

The truth is, the only difference between good girls and bad girls is: Good girls just haven't been caught yet.

For all I know, entire scientific reputations may have been built on the work of students and colleagues! I don't know what can be done to combat this dishonesty.

Worldly wisdom teaches that is it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

The Lady Ishil gestured. Oh, we asked. It wasn't difficult. Everyone in this pigsty of a town seems to know where you sleep. A delicately curled lip. She let him go. And with who. Ringil ignored that one. I'm a hero, Mother. What do you expect?

His lack of condemnatory zeal gave him a reputation in the religious hierarchy that ensured he would always remain a humble teacher in a backwater town.

And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. That was your nature, whether you liked it or not.

He never recorded the writer or the source: he didn't want to be bullied by reputation; truth should stand by itself, clear and unsupported.

Wilde also established another prime rule of fame in the modern age: that there is no such thing as bad publicity, there is only publicity. Success is better measured in column inches than by what those columns contain.

for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as.

Don't think ill of me, remember me well. Tell people you were fond of me, that you loved me, that I wasn't a bad guy. Even if, perhaps, none of this was the case.

No one understood what his legend had cost him.

They said he killed his first wife. Papa said maybe she needed killing.

As soon as I stopped trying to exploit my literary skills to advance my career or enhance my reputation, I found that I was opening myself to the text, could lose myself to the beauty of the words and in the wisdom of the writer. It was a kind of ekstasis, an ecstasy that was not an exotic, tranced state of consciousness but, in the literal sense of the word, a going beyond self.

if a person is willing to listen to gossip they are also willing to spread it.

But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you're nice, too, which is silly in the extreme. Sadly, it's a burden that you must bear.

You ever worked with Wookiees?" The commandos shook their heads, wide-eyed. "Well, everything you've heard is true.

The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you.

Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.