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Reputation Quotes - Page 11

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

"Licymnius". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 430 BCE.

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.372, Penguin

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Charles Churchill (1774). “The Rosciad. The apology. The prophecy of famine, a Scots pastoral. An epistle to William Hogarth. The ghost. book 1-2”, p.57

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 3, l. 16