Maintaining Respect Quotes

I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.