Ben Jonson Quotes

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be felt where conscience is dormant.

I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?

When things go well, everyone talks well of you and vice versa. Unfortunately, football is like that.

Everybody appears to look down on Bieber. No person able to write a grammatical sentence about Justin Bieber actually thinks him worthy of the sentence.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

I don't think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don't think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.

In addition to trying to do the right thing and obey the law and follow principle, there's a part of the conservative, slash, Republican movement that believes if we just show that we're fair and impeccable, then we will get credit from those who think we're all these horrible things, and maybe they won't hate us as much.

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Smokers in our culture are hated and despised. Smokers, people look down on 'em, don't want anything to do with them. Smokers are really the modern incarnation of evil, and yet smokers, because of all the taxes they are paying, are funding most of the children's health care programs the federal government has.

You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.

Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.