Quotes About Reputation

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.