Reputation Quotes - Page 38

• I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Perfect, Bored

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.566, Wordsworth Editions

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• She had wanted more than she could have. She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her. In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a silly title.

  Sarah MacLean

  Silly, Names, Important

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• Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Liars, Men, Wind

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Cutting, Emotional, Names

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• Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Alive, Praise, Attacking

  Chuck Palahniuk (2009). “Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey”, Anchor Canada

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• Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Wall, Pride, Men

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• He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Philosophy, Party

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1400, Delphi Classics

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• I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Two, Voice, Long

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• My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Knowing Everything, Rooms

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• I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kissing, Men, Thinking

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• Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.

  Andrew Weil

  Bad Relationship, Drug, Matter

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• If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

  Terry Pratchett

  Honesty, Successful, World

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• But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Men, Taught

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Pathfinder”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you found this place and what you intend to do here, and you haven't told me that, either.' 'We might ask you the same thing,' Jasper retorted. 'You might, but I don't recommend it,' Mairelon said. 'You'll get a reputation as a poor conversationalist if you all can do is repeat what other people say to you.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  People, Might, Firsts

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.135, Macmillan

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• In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone else—my reputation destroyed. I’d rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career.” - Al

  Kim Harrison

  Careers, Space, Soul

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• Just listen,” she said. “You can’t kill him in cold blood.” “Whyever not?” Ye gods grant me patience. “Because he’ll be dead,” she said as patiently as she could, “and Lady Clara’s reputation will be stained forever. Do not, I pray you, do anything, Lord Longmore. Leave this to us.” “Us.” “My sisters and me.” “What do you propose? Dressing him to death? Tying him up and making him listen to fashion descriptions?

  Loretta Chase

  Fashion, Blood, Forever

  Loretta Chase (2012). “Scandal Wears Satin”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

  Markus Zusak

  Nice, Can Do, Caustic

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.162, Random House

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• You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win.

  Julie James

  Winning, Men, Firm

  Julie James (2008). “Just the Sexiest Man Alive”, p.10, Penguin

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• I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, Brain, Noise

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.599, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Years, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

  David Mitchell

  Kings, Thinking, Spheres

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.443, Hachette UK

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• "I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

  Anthony Horowitz

  Thinking, Looks, Holmes

  "The House of Silk". Book by Anthony Horowitz, November 1, 2011.

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• Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.

  Rumi

  Running, Long, Safety

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• A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Easier, Bad Reputation, Conscience

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• [she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Giving Up, Want, Unselfishness

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more”, p.3390, e-artnow

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