"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."

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"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."

"I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways."

"We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence."

"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."

"Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left."

"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."

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"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."

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