Reputation Quotes

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

We now have a national reputation for corruption.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

When we deal with the name and reputation of another we deal with something sacred in the sight of the Lord.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Once your reputation's done/ You can live a life of fun

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

You want to grow where you came up so when you move, you get noticed easier. You can grow in New York but it's better to come here already solid to get your reputation quicker.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

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.

Especially being a woman of color, sometimes it's hard for to put our foot down. You work with a lot of men, and they'll be like, "She has Joyner the best reputation".

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.