Quotes About Reputation

People will talk about you for as long as you live, so just buckle up and get over it. It's human nature to talk about other people.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I love not being trusted, even though I wasn't the one saying all those things.

I told Morel, thinking to interest him, that M. de Norpois was a friend of my father. But not a movement of his features shewed that he had heard me, so little did he think of my parents, so far short did they fall in his estimation of what my great-uncle had been, who had employed Morel's father as his valet, and, as a matter of fact, being, unlike the rest of the family, fond of not giving trouble, had left a golden memory among his servants

The Duc de Guermantes was not overpleased by these offers. Uncertain whether Ibsen and D'Annunzio were dead or alive, he could see in his mind's eye a tribe of authors, playwrights, coming to call upon his wife and putting her in their works. People in society are too apt to think of a book as a sort of cube one side of which has been removed, so that the author can at once 'put in' the people he meets

When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.

the rule among the human race—a rule that naturally admits of exceptions—is that the reputedly hard are the weak whom nobody wanted, and that the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that gentleness which the vulgar herd mistakes for weakness.

Comtesse Molé did not justify the extraordinary reputation for intelligence that she had acquired, which made one think of those mediocre actors or novelists who, at certain periods, are hailed as men of genius, either because of the mediocrity of their competitors, among whom there is no artist capable of revealing what is meant by true talent, or because of the mediocrity of the public, which, did there exist an extraordinary individuality, would be incapable of understanding it.

He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.

It is quite possible for leaders to become self-promoting without realizing it. Over time, defending their reputation becomes important to retaining and growing control. They become harder to disagree with because of the combination of the control they exert within the formal structure and the relational support they can gather privately outside of it.

The best pilots usually have the most unflattering nicknames. The pilots I know say they don't generally have much confidence in anyone with a call sign like Maverick or Viper. If you meet one named Outhouse or Dumpster Diver, however, it's a safe bet he's good to go.

I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation.

If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.

Superintendent Stanislaus Oates of the Central Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard, was one of those happy people who retain throughout their lives a childlike belief in a sharp dividing line between that which is wrong and that which is right. It is this peculiarity which is common to all the great English policemen and is probably the basis of their reputation both for integrity and for stupidity.

hoping that the rest of the staff lived up to the Inn's reputation of "gracious and accommodating" better than the bellhop. When was the last time she'd had a bellhop comment on the weight of her luggage?

But rumour is a creature with many heads and no body, and I had no way to hunt it, any more than I could smooth over matters with my new relations.

no fame is actually worth much now-a-days,—because it is not classic fame, strong in reposeful old-world dignity,—it is blatant noisy notoriety merely.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.