The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.
Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person. "
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.