Theodora quotes

“I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.”
-- Theodora

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“For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.”
-- Theodora

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“Royalty is a fine burial shroud.”
-- Theodora

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“It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.”
-- Theodora

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“For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.”
-- Theodora

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“Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!”
-- Theodora

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“What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?”

“Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse”

“Once established, reputations do not easily change.”

Source : "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

“Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.”

“At ev'ry word a reputation dies.”

“If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.”

Source : Andrew Sarris (1973). “The primal screen: essays on film and related subjects”, Simon & Schuster

“Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.”

“Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.215, 谷月社

“I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.”