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Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON, Memoirs and Essays
A man can get a reputation from very small things.
SOPHOCLES, Inachus [fragment]
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Othello
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Othello
At ev’ry word a reputation dies.
ALEXANDER POPE, The Rape of the Lock
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Lincoln's Own Stories
Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Incredible Quotations
Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone With the Wind
- He who worries about reputation,
- Has a reputation to worry about.
EDWIN LEIBFREED, "The Song of the Soul"
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Reputation is an interpretation, more or less accurate, of character.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Reputation, my dear, reputation. Lose it, and you have lost the immortal part of yourself. What remains is no more than bestial.
JENNIFER LEE CARRELL, Interred With Their Bones
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, Notebooks
A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
When a man has once gained a Reputation not even with God's help can he get rid of it.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
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