Reputation Quotes

“I say, without characters, fame lives long.”

“Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.”

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.”

“There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.”

“I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.”

“After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”

“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”

“The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.”

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.”

“We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.”

“That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;The ornament of beauty is suspect,A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.”

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed”

“My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.”

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!”

“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”

“Either our history shall with full mouthSpeak freely of our acts, or else our grave,Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.”

“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.”

“No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.”

“More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.”

“Report me and my cause aright.”

“No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?”

“Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.”

“You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.”

“He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.”

“Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.”