Reputation Quotes - Page 23

• Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Hypocrisy, Dresses

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.256, Macmillan

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• Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

  Tahir Shah

  Daughter, Doorways, Intriguing

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 18, 2013

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• Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.

  David Sedaris

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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• Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?

  Michael Ayrton

  Artist, Architect, Divine

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• Purpose should determine approach.  At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

  Andy Stanley

  The End Of The Day, Purpose, Should

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.94, Zondervan

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• If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.

  Andy Stanley

  Thinking, Able, Scripts

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• Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.

  John Todd

  Real, Men, Differences

  John Todd (1856). “The student's manual: designed”, p.23

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• In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

  Chris Murray

  Doctors, Differences, Wells

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• That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

  George Eliot

  Men, Fame, Performances

  George Eliot (2009). “Middlemarch: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.153, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Fabric

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.451, Penguin

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• A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Men, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.429

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• The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it - if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate - for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.

  Learned Hand

  Character, Past, Judging

  The New York Times, October 06, 1963.

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• I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

  John Dryden

  Women, Wrinkles, Twenties

  'The Maiden Queen' (1668) act 3, sc. 1

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• To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

  Mason Cooley

  Grieving, Gains, Virtue

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Athlete, Office, Battle

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Degrees, Needs, Addresses

  1777 Joseph Surface. The School for Scandal, act 5, sc.1.

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• I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.

  George Ade

  Country, Pride, Cities

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• The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

  Martin Amis

  True Man, Manipulator

  Martin Amis (1986). “The moronic inferno: and other visits to America”, Jonathan Cape

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• Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Jesus, Cities

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to George W. Bush, www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2006.

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• The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.

  Andre Maurois

  Wise, Winning, Men

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

  Milton Friedman

  Long, Records, Poor

  1988 'The Fed Has No Clothes', in The Wall Street Journal,15 Apr.

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• The fear of missing out means that today’s media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out.

  Tony Blair

  Mean, Media, People

  Tony Blair's Lecture on Our Nation's Future at Reuters headquarters, uk.reuters.com. June 12, 2007.

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• Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Home, Writing, Doctors

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated

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• Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Home, Nursing, Self

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• 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.

  Aristotle Onassis

  People, Rich, Neglect

  "Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis". Book by Peter Evans, 1978.

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