John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886) Anglo-American temperance orator
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 46.
“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
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John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) (1642–1710) English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England
Reg. v. Swendsen (1702), 14 How. St. Tr. 596.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
As quoted in "Lincoln's Imagination" by Noah Brooks, in Scribner's Monthly (August 1879), p. 586 http://books.google.com/books?id=jOoGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA586 <br class="br">Posthumous attributions <br class="br">Variant: Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.”
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
The Men Who Are Making America (1918) by Bertie Charles Forbes
“I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. ”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) French author (1864-1910)
Lucian Truscott (1895–1965) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Quoted in Air Force Journal of Logistics, March 22, 2005, Notable quotes.(Lucien Truscott)(Brief Article)
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
Comment made to Novalyne Price. One Who Walked Alone by Novalyne Price Ellis, pp. 78-79
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Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
Anonymous author; this is attributed to Mann, in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998) edited by Connie Robertson, and similar statements are often attributed to Thomas Paine, but the earliest published variant of such a declaration seem to be in an anecdote about an anonymous Boston woman in 1889:
I have the reputation of being of good moral character. But you know reputation is what people think of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us, and that I don't want to tell.
Anonymous Boston woman, as quoted in Current Opinion (1889)
There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.
Price Collier, in Sermons (1892)
Reputation is what men and women think of us, character is what God and the angels know of us.
Attributed to Thomas Paine in A Dictionary of Terms, Phrases,and Quotations (1895) edited by Henry Percy Smith, and Helen Kendrick Johnson
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Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Source: Les Misérables