See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Stichwörter: popularity reputation
Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy.
Stichwörter: sex orgasm reputation whores scandal whore
A poet could kill the dead.
Cameron ConawayStichwörter: poetry reputation
You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.
Jefferson SmithStichwörter: humor belief humour fantasy trust authority reputation gullibility young-adult credibility
There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.
Dru PagliassottiStichwörter: humor past future woman romance reputation clockwork-heart
The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
Bernard CornwellStichwörter: preachers pride reputation shield-wall
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
Francis BaconStichwörter: practice morality philosophy religion atheism virtue government sense superstition wise argument reputation laws confusion caesar monarchy piety civil master augustus-caesar natural-piety
Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!
Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
Stichwörter: sex humour satisfaction reputation duel honour
If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: reputation foolery
Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.
John WoodenStichwörter: character reputation
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