Top 67 Bad Reputation Quotes
#1. If you want someone to help you heal then you don't go to the enemy; you go to the one person that fears a bad reputation if they don't help you.
Shannon L. Alder
#2. One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.
Mary Doria Russell
#6. Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
Joan Jett
#7. A lot of people would say "well that's not a bad reputation. you sound like a pussy" and I would say yea. but I am passionate about music and being taken seriously about my music, so if you're going to mess with that, we have a problem.
Joan Jett
#8. At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me!
Tanya Tucker
#9. The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you.
Karin Slaughter
#10. Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
Gautama Buddha
#11. An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.
Doug Larson
#12. I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
Jane Alexander
#13. I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
Ted Kotcheff
#14. People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.
Kanye West
#15. You could say that the Hell's Angels have a bad reputation, then you talk to a biker, and he's trying to join it. It just depends upon who you're talking to about reputation.
Anton Newcombe
#16. If you aren't going to say something directly to someone's face, than don't use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.
Mena Grabowski Trott
#17. I have no idea why hitting people when their backs are turned has such a bad reputation. I've always found it most effective."
Cassandra Gannon
#18. Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow.
Susan Wojcicki
#19. Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
Orson Scott Card
#20. Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.
Jeff Cooper
#21. Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.
Lord Chesterfield
#22. You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.
Billy Joel
#24. Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
Henry Mayhew
#25. There was no reason to fear the sea, only the living, because, despite their bad reputation, there was no evidence that the dead had ever attacked anyone; if anything, they were naturally timid
Isabel Allende
#26. Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.
Linda Chavez
#28. Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class.
Harvey Pekar
#29. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger
#31. I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't function in the world without stereotypes.
W. J. T. Mitchell
#32. It always seemed like there was too much in real life I was supposed to be afraid of: drunk drivers, rapists, unwanted pregnancy, HPV, undercooked chicken, toxic shock syndrome, and a bad reputation.
Leila Howland
#33. Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.
Robert Bresson
#34. I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.
Henrik Pontoppidan
#35. I've got a reputation for doing a certain type of film: lads' movies that glamorise violence. The more my reputation as a bad boy grows, the more my life moves away from that.
Nick Love
#36. People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.
Jason Calacanis
#37. Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
Samuel E. Morison
#38. I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
L.M. Montgomery
#39. I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations.
John Balance
#41. Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once. That's the thing. You know, I think that's particularly pertinent with Justin [Bieber] because, like, you just forget how young he is.
James Corden
#42. Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.
Ivan Misner
#43. I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad. Even though there are some people who do very well, like Marc Rich-who plainly has never had any decent ethics, or seldom anyway. But in the end, Warren Buffett has done better than Marc Rich-in money-not just in reputation.
Charlie Munger
#45. One tiny stain on a woman's reputation was as bad as a lifetime of debauchery.
Elizabeth Charles
#46. If I were a girl, I'd be sucking every cock I could get my mouth on," Will said. "Fuck, I'd take on the whole football team at one time."
Burke ran his hand through Will's hair. "Careful," he said. "You don't want to get a reputation as a bad girl. No one will marry you, then.
Michael Thomas Ford
#47. Girls, watch out for the bad guys! ... there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#48. It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
Nic Pizzolatto
#49. Maybe you're not so bad after all.'
He leant across the seat, jabbing his finger in the air. 'If you tell anyone, I'll deny it. I have a reputation to uphold, you know.
Catherine Doyle
#50. I'll praise Glaucon for the rest of the book as the guy who got it right - the guy who realized that the most important principle for designing an ethical society is to make sure that everyone's reputation is on the line all the time, so that bad behavior will always bring bad consequences.
Jonathan Haidt
#52. An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
Tacitus
#53. It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
#54. If you fellows have been hunted from one end of the country to the other as I have been, you'll understand what a bad man's reputation is built on. I've had credit for more killings than I ever dreamt of
Doc Holliday
#55. What is a good man?
Simply one whose life is useful to the world.
And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others.
There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness.
These are the worst of all.
Zhang Zhao
#56. I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.
Theodora
#57. You did good, you did good again. But then, you did bad, and suddenly you were never any good.
Shon Mehta
#60. Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors ... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.
Peter Thiel
#61. There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.
Peter Bogdanovich
#62. Misdeeds of a few players and certain people cannot and should not bring bad name to hundreds of players who participated in the I.P.L. with full honesty. The reputation of the I.P.L. cannot be tarnished by a few greedy individuals.
Rajeev Shukla
#63. ...your name will remain forever in the memory of people. However, it will not be a good memory. Your name will become a household name in all languages, and it will only cause bad associations in humans.
Viktor Shel
#64. Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower."
Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!
Bryce Courtenay
#65. When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett
#66. Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.
Andrew Weil
#67. Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.
Ben Barnes
