Quotes About Reputation

My child, I've given you my name. Don't take it in vain. Keep it clean. Let it mean something when you are called a Christian. Don't let my name fall into disrepute because of you.

Wolsey and Henry VIII, it has to be said, were not exceptional in their love of the table. The English of Tudor times had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony. Indeed, overeating was regarded as the English vice in the same way that lust was the French one and drunkenness that of the Germans (although looking at the amount of alcohol consumed in England, I expect the English probably ran a close second to the Germans).

On the security circuit in the Middle East, reputation is everything. If you don't know someone, they're probably not worth knowing.

The world will remember you for your simplicity and humility!

You may not be known or popular all over the world, but by doing honorable acts and decent gestures each day you are already famous.

Infamy is the new PR. --Scandalocity by Coerte V.W. Felske

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

Who would omit the fact that his wife was in the habit of hosting musicians ranging from Pau Casals to Edgard Varèse? Why present her as a dabbling little girl?

Rumors concerning his life on the island established his reputation as an adventurer with a taste for the exotic, which was an asset in his line of business.

You see, intuition has served me well throughout my career, and I owe a great part of my reputation to it. Adding science and the objective interpretation of great volumes of data to my intuition is the source of my edge. This unique combination is what has always allowed me to stay ahead of the ticker.

Sokrates' wife, Xanthippe, had in antiquity a reputation as a shrew - but being married to such a man would have tried anyone's patience, and the evidence is not conclusive.

A decade of self-aggrandisement, since his daughter flashed her cunny at the king, has made Boleyn rich and settled and confident.

You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead.

In his student days he was known for a sharp slanderous tongue, for irreverance to his seniors, for drinking and gaming for high stakes. But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?

Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne's rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the old marriage and let in the new. He does not expect them to soften to him, to include him in their companionship; he only wants them not to spit in his dinner.

He has noticed this: that men who have not met him dislike him, but when they have met him, only some of them do.

This may interest you. A letter from my dear cousin Fouquier-Tinville." Camille cast an eye over his relative's best handwriting. "Squirm, flattery, abasement, squirm, dearest sweetest Camille, squirm squirm squirm … 'the election of the Patriot Ministers … I know them all by reputation, but I am not so happy as to be known by them—

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Our promises don't matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.

And so was Prince Cardan's reputation made. He had little to do but further it.

In the extravagance of her evil she has brought shame both on herself and on all women who will come after her, even on one who is virtuous.

Les actrices payent aussi les éloges, mais les plus habiles payent les critiques, le silence est ce qu'elles redoutent le plus. Aussi une critique, faite pour être rétorquée ailleurs, vaut-elle mieux et se paye-t-elle plus cher qu'un éloge tout sec, oublié le lendemain. La polémique, mon cher, est le piédestal des célébrités. A