Keyword: Reputation

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
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It's [a movie script] about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
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Usefulness is inversely proportional to reputation for being useful.

Murphy’s Laws

90% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

Government Law Lawyers

He doesn’t have much of a reputation or so I’ve heard.

Beliefs Opinion

To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
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It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

(1818 – 1885) humorist & lecturer
Money Time

Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Alcohol Food/Drink

A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Death Doctors Health

I just hope what Janet did at halftime [at the Super Bowl] doesn't, in any way, tarnish the good name of the Jackson family.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host
Insults

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Friends People Relationships

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

(1923 – ) German-born diplomat & scholar
Politicians

An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Characteristics Honesty

Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing.

American comedian, writer, consultant & author
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