Reputation Quotes - Page 18

• If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Shine Bright, Shining, Honor

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Plato, Philosophy, Science

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.248

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• Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Gossip, Good Company, Wit

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• A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.

  Malcolm X

  Sports, Men, White Man

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.

  Washington Irving

  Wells, Standing, Assured

  "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book".

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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

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Human Condition, Outrun

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• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Imperfection, Weakness

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Writing, Discrepancies, Wide

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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• What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

  Abraham Cowley

  Age, My Own, Known

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.27

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• I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

  Tim Daly

  Scumbags

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Way, Curmudgeon

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• We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other. Never do, probably never will. Our reputations depend on the opinions of the ill informed. We all have better moments than anybody ever knows, and so do all the others. We are, each one of us, books that are read by critics who only glanced at the chapter headings and the jacket flap. Each one of us is a secret, and on that basis we ought to treat each other with the deepest respect.

  Garrison Keillor

  Philosophy, Book, Secret

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• Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Humorous, Gambling

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.132, Da Capo Press

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• Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a very bad name. The reputation was that people always abused shared things, and in the physical world, something that is shared and abused becomes worthless. In the digital world, I think we have the inverse effect, where something that is shared can become more valuable than something that is closely held, as long as it is both shared and contributed to by everybody who is sharing in it.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Thinking, Names, Long

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• I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

  Lauren Holly

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• Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

  Gary Zukav

  Real, Winning, Needs

  "Super Soul Sunday: The Real Deal" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2012.

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• My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.

  David Parnas

  Stars, War, Believe

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• The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

  Henry Walter Bates

  People, Giving, Southern

  Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.23

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• I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

  Gabrielle Anwar

  Thinking, Sides, Honest

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

  Jeff Buckley

  Fashion, Song, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

  Jim Broadbent

  Real, Responsibility, Way

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2010.

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• I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

  Russell Brand

  Writing, Thinking, Meaningless Things

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• I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

  Shelley Berkley

  Congress, Hardest, Persons

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• The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

  Simon Baker

  Thinking, Arrogance, Arrogant

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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