Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Quotes

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

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

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

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

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

Your reputation is still the most important thing that you've got.

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

I did not have a reputation to defend.

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

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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

Obviously, having your peers' respect is everything. I learned that a long time ago: that some people see you one way, some people see you another way, but having your peers' respect is what's really important.

In the end, all you have is your reputation.

A good reputation is better than fame.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

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

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.