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Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
— W. Somerset Maugham
A reputation is really hard to live down.
— Mickey Rourke
Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.
— Linda Chavez
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
— Henry David Thoreau
I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.
— Joan Jett
I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.
— Margaret Chan
A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.
— Robert Ruark
People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.
— Sebastian Horsley
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
— P.D. James
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
— Frank Moore Colby
A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.
— Jack Miner
I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation.
— Hermann Hesse
Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.
— Alice Lowe
Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.
— Charlie Munger
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
— Publilius Syrus
My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
— Michael Schultz
In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.
— Chris Murray
I am an American by birth, a Nazi by reputation, and a nationless person by inclination
— Kurt Vonnegut
I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
— Viggo Mortensen
Reputation is like a sort of armor, or a weapon you can brandish if need be.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.
— Harold Holzer
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
— Robert Bloch
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.
— William Davis
A baton of light across the bracken redeemed the reputation of the color brown with fiery reds and yellows.
— Ian McEwan
You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.
— Harvey MacKay
A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.
— Winston Churchill
People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Sometimes it is very useful to have a reputation for being a reclusive, amoral jerk.
— Brandon Sanderson
I do have this reputation for being a serious person.
— Joni Mitchell
Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.
— Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
Dyspepsia is responsible for many a reputation for romantic melancholy or ungovernable rages.
— Agatha Christie
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
— Jim Crace
It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.
— Publilius Syrus
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
— Jane Alexander
How much kindness have I shown Him in the past week? Has my life been a good reflection on His reputation? God is saying
— Oswald Chambers
Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime ...
— Laetitia Pilkington
The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
— Samuel R. Delany
It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
— Ellie Goulding
She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.
— Charles Dickens
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
— Desiderius Erasmus
I had a reputation for scary smiles that sent children shrieking away. Evil clowns had nothing on me.
— Ann Charles
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.
— Khaled Hosseini
I have got a reputation to protect ...
— Ian McLeod
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
— Helen Rowland
This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake.
— Mark Twain
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.
— Terry Pratchett
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made so faithful is the public. — Arnold Bennett
Fortunately, Captain Helena Thorn had acquired a reputation for an eclectic taste in sexual companions and a fast turnover
— Sophie Angmering
If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
— John Steinbeck
If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.
— John C. Maxwell
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.
— Charmian Clift
I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.
— Arielle Dombasle
A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.
— John Steinbeck
You know, I have a very bad reputation.
— John Grisham
I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
— Ted Kotcheff
Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.
— Ken Baumann
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
— David Blunkett
I have no idea why hitting people when their backs are turned has such a bad reputation. I've always found it most effective."
— Cassandra Gannon
CHAPTER XVII OLIVER'S DESTINY, CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION
— Charles Dickens
Rumors alone can cause his family grief. It just isn't fair to compromise a person's reputation.
— Mary Ellis
You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.
— Shelley Berkley
Some of us got our reputations because we wrote good books or had clever publicists. He got his reputation through sheer hard work.
— James A. Owen
What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing.
— Margaret Atwood
