Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
A character is as much about what you do as what you say.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.