Reputation Quotes - Page 10

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

Anna Wintour has a reputation - she can be very intimidating - but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves.

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

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

Industries do everything they can to enhance the reputations of the industry and their products.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

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