I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.

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

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!

Reputation are made every day and every minute.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

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.