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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to read more
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on
suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of read more
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on
suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the
voters.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negligere quid read more
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis
est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met
on the street.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met
on the street.
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.