“Death only closes a Man's Reputation, and determines it as good or bad.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 349 (10 April 1712)
Famously seen on the brothel wall in the film Easy Rider.
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Reputation hidden in death.”
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 712
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Richard Matheson book I Am Legend
Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 2
Context: They were strange, the facts about them: their staying inside by day, their avoidance of garlic, their death by stake, their reputed fear of crosses, their supposed dread of mirrors.
Take that last, now. According to legend, they were invisible in mirrors, but he knew that was untrue. As untrue as the belief that they transformed themselves into bats. That was a superstition that logic, plus observation had easily disposed of. ‘It was equally foolish to believe that they could transform themselves into wolves. Without a doubt there were vampire dogs; he had seen and heard them outside his house at night. But they were only dogs.
George Gascoigne (1525–1577) English politician and poet
G. W. Pigman III, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) vol. 21, p. 585.
Criticism
“How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Paul Kurtz (1925–2012) American professor of philosophy
Paul Kurtz, Vern L. Bullough, Tim Madigan (eds.). Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz. (1994) p. 20
James Hamilton (1814–1867) Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 240.
“Lost Reputation hard is to be found.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Fab. LXI: Of Cupid, Death, and Reputation
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“At every word a reputation dies.”
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
Canto III, line 16.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)