Spencer Tracy Quotes

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

This paper does not wish to damage the dignity of the President of the United States.

I wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name.

My basic philosophy is never do anything with the word 'celebrity' attached to it. Without being overly pompous, if you have worked hard to have an audience trust you a bit, why blow it? That is my currency.

It takes time for people to respect you.

Class does not mean huge possession of money. Mother Teresa was a classy woman. So is Manjula Bhargava, a great mathematician of Indian origin. The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.

I didn't want to do anything that could possibly tarnish my brother's career.

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.