Victor Hugo Quotes

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

It’s better to be quotable than to be honest.

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

If the end brings me out right, what people said about me won't make any difference, and if the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels saying I was right won't make any difference.

Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

You are what you're portrayed as.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

What a people believes, even if untrue, has the same influence over their lives as if it were true.

By evil report and by good report.

If people believe something is true, then it is even if it isn't.

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

In polling, truth is what people perceive.

A man had rather a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish to be told.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.

… in this day and age, brands are more powerful than truth and, inexplicably, blindly, Israel is letting itself be branded an apartheid state — and even encouraging it.