The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I am better than my reputation.

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

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

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one.