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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. - William Hazlitt (1) The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name. - George Herbert How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me. - Henry Home, Lord Kames 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 Good-will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. - Lord Francis Jeffrey Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. - Douglas William Jerrold, Specimens of Jerrold's Wit--Reputations The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market. - Ben Jonson The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade. - Ben Jonson Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. - John Maynard Keynes Reputation is a jewel which nothing can replace; it is ten thousand times more valuable capital than your diamonds. - Edouard Rene Lefebure Laboulaye One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better than his principles. - Niocolas Valentin de Latena O reputation! dearer far than life. - James Russell Lowell Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. - James Russell Lowell 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 It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. - George Monk 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) How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. - Francesco Petrarch 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 A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults. - Pasquier Quesnel Displaying page 2 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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