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Reputation Quotes - Page 14

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Phyllis McGinley (1946). “Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley”, Viking Press

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

"David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

"Martin Starr’s Star Turn". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2012.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.25, Delphi Classics