The word nothing is a general negative, and reputation is a particular affirmative.

"I must confess it's largely your powdersand the reputation of my success with your little boyThere is, I cannot disguise, a strong feeling against its use.

It is doubtless also the case that, as has happened to other men gifted with humour, Lincoln's reputation as a story-teller caused to be ascribed to him a great series of anecdotes and incidents of one kind or another, some of which would have been entirely outside of, and inconsistent with, his own standard and his own method.

An artist's reputation is his capital in trade, you know."

Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity; dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

The reputation of this performance, and the verses which she addressed to Mr. Congreve upon his Mourning Bride, in 1697, were probably the foundation of her acquaintance with that admirable writer.

The reputation of WILLIAM GODWIN as a social philosopher, and the merits of his famous novel, "Caleb Williams," have been for more than a century the subject of extreme divergencies of judgment among critics.

Remember, that he is a sober mana man who has reputation to lose, and whose reputation therefore is a security for his good behaviour to you.

"A reputation may be one way or the other, Jake Storms, if that is really your name, which I doubt very much.

this reputation is a very expensive thing.

The restaurant occupies a corner house; and, though its reputation is not strictly first-class in some respects, its cook is an artist, and its wine cellar as good as the best.

The reputation of M. de Calonne was a contrast to the morality of Louis XVI., and I know not by what argumentation, by what ascendency such a prince was induced to give a place in his council to a magistrate who was certainly found agreeable in the most elegant society of Paris, but whose levity and principles were dreaded by the whole of France.

CHARACTER, REPUTATION.Character is what a man is; reputation is the prevailing opinion of his character.

The reputation of men is too noble a sacrifice to be offered up to vainglory, fond pleasure, or ill-humour; it is a good far more dear and precious, than to be prostituted for idle sport and divertisement.

Reputation is therefore a meteor, which blazes a while and disappears for ever; and, if we except a few transcendent and invincible names, which no revolutions of opinion or length of time is able to suppress; all those that engage our thoughts, or diversify our conversation, are every moment hasting to obscurity, as new favourites are adopted by fashion.

Of the Swedish establishment, my lords, the reputation and success of their troops are an uncontrovertible vindication, attd I have often had an opportunity of comparing the number of officers with that of ours, and found their private men to be far more numerous in proportion to the officers.

Reputation has been the idol, the jewel of my life.

But after all such certificates might mean very littlesuch a reputation might be no real guarantee.

If however you wish to punish me, you must be speedy in your justice; for, as reputation was the blood that warmed my heart, so I feel that death and infamy must seize me together.

The epidemic madness of the times has given him reputation, and reputation is power; and that has made him dangerous.

He declared that reputation was a bubble, which no good soldier should follow.

Statesmen and generals may grow great by unexpected accidents, and a fortunate concurrence of circumstances, neither procured nor foreseen by themselves; but reputation in the learned world must be the effect of industry and capacity.

This reputation for a high-browed indifference to commonplace mortals was naturally not a recommendation to the masculine undergraduates of the University.

Their reputation, however, is not a prop for you to lean on.

Surely Diderot's reputation as an honest man is as much a fact as his notes in the draft of the Mémoires.