False Reputation Quotes

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.

I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!