Quotes About Having A Bad Reputation

#1. The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you.

Karin Slaughter

#2. 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

#3. I have a bad reputation, I guess.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry A. Kissinger

#7. You know, I have a very bad reputation.

John Grisham

#8. 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

#9. ...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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

Robert Bresson

#16. 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

#17. Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow.

Susan Wojcicki

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

Tacitus

#24. Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

Lord Chesterfield

#25. It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Benjamin Franklin

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

Theodora

#31. You did good, you did good again. But then, you did bad, and suddenly you were never any good.

Shon Mehta

#32. Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.

Savielly Tartakower

#33. Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

Henry Mayhew

#34. Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

#35. 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

#36. It is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington