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728. All gods are better than their reputation. (Gods & Reputation) Mark Twain
23,598. I didn’t know I had that much of a reputation. (Spy Films & Reputation) Climax! Casino Royale 1954 starring Barry Nelson & Peter Lorre & Linda Christian & Michael Pate & Eugene Borden & Jean del Val & Gene Roth & Kurt Katch & William Lundigan et al, director William H Brown junior, Bond
86,615. I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. Rosa Parks
86,616. Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it, you may easily preserve it – but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. Thus a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear. Socrates
86,617. The reputation which the world bestows is like the wind, that shifts now here now there, its name changed with the quarter whence it blows. Dante Alighieri 1265-1321, Divina Commedia Purgatorio canto 11
86,618. O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. William Shakespeare, Othello II iii 264
86,619. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. ibid. II iii @362, Iago
86,620. Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! Luke 6:26
86,621. Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington
86,622. 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. F Scott Fitzgerald
86,623. Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. Paul Theroux
86,624. A good reputation is more valuable than money. Publilius Syrus
86,625. My reputation grows with every failure. (Reputation & Failure) George Bernard Shaw
86,626. Ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others, more determined to conquer their hostility or indifference? It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation – to force the esteem of others – seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation. Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal Intime 1882
86,627. How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
86,628. It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. Richard Bentley
90,361. One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation. (Survival & Reputation) Oscar Wilde
32,644. No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. (US Presidents & Reputation) Thomas Jefferson