Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be felt where conscience is dormant.

The reputation of a woman is like glass; once cracked, it cannot be repaired.

I absolutely do care what people think about me.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

All my confidence has disappeared because the whole nation thinks I'm a homophobe who looks like a monster.

We all would shudder if what we did, no matter what, in our 20s and early 30s were publicly displayed on a national stage.

You know, as far as public perception goes, if you get seen with some people one time, everyone thinks you're in that group.

Having the last name 'Bloomberg' sucks.

I try to separate my modelling work from my school life because I don't want people to think of me differently or that I am a certain way because of it.

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.

Personally, I have never considered myself corrupt or seen the need to be so. People are judged as what they are perceived to be.

Being considered a dirtbag is not illegal.

When things go well, everyone talks well of you and vice versa. Unfortunately, football is like that.

Everybody appears to look down on Bieber. No person able to write a grammatical sentence about Justin Bieber actually thinks him worthy of the sentence.

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.