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What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor? - Honore de Balzac It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. - Richard Bentley, in Monk's "Life of Bentley", vol. I, ch. VI A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment. - Ernest Bramah People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think. - George Carlin And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word. - Charles Churchill, Apology To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Officiis (1, 28) No book was ever written down by any but itself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. [Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu. Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.] - attributed to Quintus Ennius, quoted by Cicero "Tusc. Quoest.", 15, 34, latter part said to be in Ennius' "Epitaph" You don't build a reputation on what you're going to do. - Henry Ford A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd. - John Gay, Fables--The Fox at the Point of Death (l. 46) For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann und Dorothea (VII, 93) I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., Ich halte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben mochte.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia auf Tauris (II, 1, 140) A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. - Joseph Hall How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters. - Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson, Memoirs and Essays--Washington Allston Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. - Douglas William Jerrold, Specimens of Jerrold's Wit--Reputations Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. - John Maynard Keynes One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better than his principles. - Niocolas Valentin de Latena That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. - attributed to Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton, Men of Old How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations! - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays--Of Glory Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. - Thomas Paine To be pointed out with the finger. - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), Satires (I, l. 28) At every word a reputation dies. - Alexander Pope In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. - Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock (pt. III, l. 11), this stanza not found in his printed works Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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