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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Reputation

A good name is better than precious ointment. [Ecclesiastes 7:1]
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
He that has the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
I am better than my reputation.
I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
My reputation grew with every failure.
My reputation is a media creation.
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Reputation are made every day and every minute.
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one.
Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples -- do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings -- don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
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.
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

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