Reputation Quotes

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

If you control your distribution, you control your image.

I am better than my reputation.

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I’m like nails. I will kill.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we’d like to be seen.

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.