Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Always providing you have enough courage—or money—you can do without a reputation.
Reputation takes a lifetime to build, but only seconds to destroy.
"Oh, no, I couldn’t!! You mustn’t! My reputation will be ruined.”
“It’s in shreds already..."
You know, dirt cleans off a lot easier than blood.
Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
If you acquire a reputation as a mad dog, you'll be treated as a mad dog. Taken out back and slaughtered for pig feed.
Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
A good reputation can take you places in politics and business, in this house.
It's a rare enough thing — a man who lives up to his reputation.
We know the most fragile thing in the world is a woman's reputation.
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