A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.
People have already dirtied my name too much.
It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.
Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?
The reputation of a woman is like glass; once cracked, it cannot be repaired.
The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.
Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.
