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William Shakespeare3 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 · 1604The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. — William Shakespeare · 1595Benjamin Franklin2 quotes
He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas. — Benjamin Franklin · 1733Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended. — Benjamin Franklin · 1750Ron Burgundy2 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 · 2004Arthur Conan Doyle1 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 · 1887Blaise Pascal1 quote
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't say anything. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Brooke Taylor Windham1 quote
I'd rather go to jail than lose my reputation. — Brooke Taylor Windham · 2001Dante Alighieri1 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 · 1321Edgar W. Howe1 quote
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live. — Edgar W. Howe · 1877Harvey Dent1 quote
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. — Harvey Dent · 2008Marcus Brody1 quote
My reputation precedes me. — Marcus Brody · 1989Rhett Butler1 quote
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. — Rhett Butler · 1939Thorstein Veblen1 quote
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899