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Comedy3 quotes
I'm kind of a big deal...people know me. — Ron Burgundy · 2004I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. — Ron Burgundy · 2004I'd rather go to jail than lose my reputation. — Brooke Taylor Windham · 2001Comedy (film)3 quotes
I'm kind of a big deal...people know me. — Ron Burgundy · 2004I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. — Ron Burgundy · 2004I'd rather go to jail than lose my reputation. — Brooke Taylor Windham · 2001History (play)2 quotes
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones. — William Shakespeare · 1599The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. — William Shakespeare · 1595Tragedy (play)2 quotes
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones. — William Shakespeare · 1599Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare · 1604Action1 quote
My reputation precedes me. — Marcus Brody · 1989Action (film)1 quote
My reputation precedes me. — Marcus Brody · 1989Adventure1 quote
My reputation precedes me. — Marcus Brody · 1989Adventure (film)1 quote
My reputation precedes me. — Marcus Brody · 1989Crime drama1 quote
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. — Harvey Dent · 2008Crime drama (film)1 quote
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. — Harvey Dent · 2008Detective fiction1 quote
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Economic literature1 quote
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899Epic1 quote
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. — Rhett Butler · 1939Epic (film)1 quote
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. — Rhett Butler · 1939Epic poem1 quote
The reputation which the world bestows
is like the wind, that shifts now here now there,
its name changed with the quarter whence it blows. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Historical romance1 quote
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. — Rhett Butler · 1939Historical romance (film)1 quote
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. — Rhett Butler · 1939Narrative poem1 quote
The reputation which the world bestows
is like the wind, that shifts now here now there,
its name changed with the quarter whence it blows. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Philosophical literature1 quote
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't say anything. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Religious literature1 quote
The reputation which the world bestows
is like the wind, that shifts now here now there,
its name changed with the quarter whence it blows. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Sociology1 quote
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899Superhero1 quote
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. — Harvey Dent · 2008Superhero (film)1 quote
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. — Harvey Dent · 2008