“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
Iago, Act II, scene iii.
Source: Othello (1603–4)
Fab. LXI: Of Cupid, Death, and Reputation
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
Iago, Act II, scene iii.
Source: Othello (1603–4)
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Variant: Until you 've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Source: Gone with the Wind
“You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found…”
Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States
“All is not lost. But neither is it found.”
Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 133, “Glittering Stone: A Dangerous Game” (p. 741)
“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Source: The Faerie Queene
“I found it hard,
It was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, never mind.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)
“You will say that I am lost;
That, being enamoured,
I lost myself; and yet was found.”
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Context: If, then, on the common land
I am no longer seen or found,
You will say that I am lost;
That, being enamoured,
I lost myself; and yet was found. ~ 29
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America