Quotes About Reputation

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I'm really too young to be feeling this old.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.