Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than read more

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.

I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.

It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of
reputation but by himself.

It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of
reputation but by himself.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.

Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.