#reputation

Let louts learn [their] lesson and stifle their malicious talk! When they are enjoying themselves on the pub bench, with a jug and a glass and a barman there to serve up, then their chatter and their fun is to pass judmgent on some innocent girl -- would to God they'd drown in a beer barrel for it! ↗

— Anonymous

#gender #inequality #men #misogyny #morality

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#assassinations #dispositions #friendly #give #ill

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#best #citizen #dangerous #days #fathers

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#had #i #juan #married #me

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#china #continue #deficit #economy #grow

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#doubt #great #him #his #know

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools. ↗

— Glenn Close

#because #being #difficult #ego #fools

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. ↗

— William Congreve

#coroner #inquest #like #reputations #sit

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#administration #attended #cheerfully #country #credit

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#eulogy #evaluate #own #reputation #said