Quotes About Reputation

I've done things in the media I was not only not proud of, I was ashamed of.

Well, then! there are streets, or ends of streets, there are houses, unknown for the most part to persons of social distinction, to which a woman of that class cannot go without causing cruel and very wounding things to be thought of her. Whether the woman be rich and has a carriage, whether she is on foot, or is disguised, if she enters one of these Parisian defiles at any hour of the day, she compromises her reputation as a virtuous woman.

the proofs being more or less like us according to a distribution of shading which is so nearly imperceptible that our reputation depends (barring the calumnies of friends and the witticisms of newspapers) on the balance struck by our criticisers between Truth that limps and Falsehood to which Parisian wit gives wings.

Una mujer bella puede ser ella misma a su antojo; la sociedad le pasa siempre por alto una tontería o una torpeza, mientras que una sola mirada detiene la más magnífica expresión en los labios de una mujer fea, intimida sus ojos, aumenta la poca gracia de sus ademanes, coarta su actitud. Bien sabe que sólo a ella se le prohíbe cometer faltas, que todos le niegan el don de repararlas, y, por lo demás, nadie le proporciona la ocasión de ello.

Madame de Bargeton iba a encontrarse en esa tesitura en la que se han encontrado multitud de mujeres que se han perdido solo después de haber sido injustamente acusadas.

Celebrity, my dear fellow, is based upon controversy.

Gloriously perjured, a maiden famous to all time.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.

I went back into the kitchen and drank two cups of coffee black as the devil's reputation.

No one who is a friend of Pakistan must say anything that harms its reputation; anyone who dares to ask tough questions or make adverse remarks must be prepared to be categorized as Pakistan's enemy.

Unlike other countries, where the apex court is only the court of final appeal in criminal matters, Pakistan's Supreme Court acts politically to directly make pronouncements in response to media articles or petitions by political rivals. One need not be convicted of disloyalty to the state after due process of law when innuendo, fabricated media reports and public comments by Supreme Court judges can suffice to tarnish reputations and cut public support.

In the process of moulding a nation on the basis of Islam, Pakistan has ended up earning for itself the reputation for being home to the world's angriest Muslims.

We are quick to stand up for our own rights and reputation and eager for everyone to think well of us. At the same time, we are slow, very slow, to put ourselves out for the sake of others or for the sake of God's reputation. We'd much rather hear God's name taken in vain than our own.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

from opinion surveys that journalists are less trusted and less esteemed than used to be the case.

In modern democracies, press freedom was being used as a cloak to shield media conglomerates' domination of public discussion 'in which misinformation may be peddled uncorrected and in which reputations may be selectively shredded or magnified. A free press is not an unconditional good.' When the media mislead, she added, 'the wells of public discourse and public life are poisoned'. Dr Onora O'Neill

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.

Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by gossip John Aubrey from his interview with William Beeston, son of the Christopher Beeston who had acted with Shakespeare's company. The partly cancelled note reads: 'the more to be admired, he was not a company keeper. [He] ... wouldn't be debauched, and if invited to, writ [i.e. wrote] he was in pain.' [Ch.24]

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Spike," but at some point, he decided to go by "Magic Spike." That tells you everything. In his own mind, he became magic. That was his downfall. And it's the downfall of almost all players and gangsters and hustlers. They get away with breaking the law so many times,

At Crenshaw, I was already known as a player. I didn't let anyone call me by my real name—Tracy. That would start fights. Niggas would say, "Tracy? That's a bitch's name." And shit would pop