A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.
Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
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.]
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. [Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu. Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]
A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
I am better than my reputation
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
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