Mark Twain Quotes About Reputation

• There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

  Mark Twain

  Food, People, Gone

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3582, GENERAL PRESS

• Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

  Mark Twain

  Sleep, Men, Giving

• Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Opportunity, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.787, Jazzybee Verlag

• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Vapor, Reputation

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

• All gods are better than their reputation.

  Mark Twain

  God, Novelists, Reputation

• If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

  Mark Twain

  War, Home, Fighting

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.146, Penguin

• If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

  Mark Twain

  Mouths, Reputation, Empty

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.146, Penguin

• Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

  Mark Twain

  Doubt, Reputation, Silver

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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