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Alexander Pope
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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Alexander Pope
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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Benjamin Franklin
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
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Benjamin Franklin
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
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Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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.]
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Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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.]
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Douglas Jerrold
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
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Douglas Jerrold
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
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Douglas Jerrold
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
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Douglas Jerrold
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
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Henry Rink
Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!
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Henry Rink
Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]
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