#reputation

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ↗

— Voltaire

#defects #ends #makes #making #men

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#discovering #everybody #honorable #made #possible

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. ↗

— William Wycherley

#call #honor #men #only #persons

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

#after #cases #civilized #civilized society #defense

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#i #need #office #order #president

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#enough #reputation #without #you

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#control #get #got #happens #i

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#like #real #real thing #reputation #shadow

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#etc #himself #must #never #prisoner