My Reputation Precedes Me Quotes

#1. My reputation precedes me. It shows up about fifteen minutes before I do, eats, and then leaves without paying or tipping.

Jarod Kintz

#2. Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#3. That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

George Eliot

#4. I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again ... it's funner that way.

Rufus Wainwright

#5. Our reputations precedes us. If I know someone is not nice, not kind, an asshole - I generally don't want to work with them.

Dwayne Johnson

#6. He smiled again. "Your reputation undoubtedly precedes you."
I bristled. "I am not that curious!"
"You are curious as any cat, my love ...

Deanna Raybourn

#7. I take it you know my companion?"
Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything."
Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby.

Simon R. Green

#8. I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

Allison Tolman

#9. The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#10. The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

Samuel R. Delany