So thou be good, slander doth but approve thy worth the greater.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Reputation makes fear, and pride protects reputation.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
Let theory guide your observations, but till your reputation is well established be sparing in publishing theory. It makes persons doubt your observations.
It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.
I will be gone, that pitiful rumour may report my flight, to consolate thine ear.
I see my reputation is at stake; my fame is shrewdly gored.
I have offended reputation, a most unnoble swerving.
