Reputation Quotes
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It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.
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For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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Do not be misled by hearing of anyone's reputation.
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Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
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Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.
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Anytime you start out slow like that it's a concern. You don't want to have the reputation of being a slow-starting team because you're not always going to be able to come back. We've been fortunate we've come back and won, but it could easily have gone the other way.
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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.
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One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
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Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.
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The reputation of power IS power.
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Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
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The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.
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"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."
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I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.
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I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britains greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse.
