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QUOTES ON REPUTATION

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

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


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