Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
Once your reputation's done You can live a life of fun
And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue.
You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Though the boot may fit the foot, one can rarely stand in the tread of his own reputation.
Posterity is always just.
Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood. . . Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
What good is a reputation not put to good use.
I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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?
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.