A shabby coat finds small credit. [ Italian Proverb ]
Thy credit wary keep, 'tis quickly gone;
Being got by many actions, lost by one. [ Randolph ]
We credit most our sight; one eye doth please
Our trust far more than ten ear witnesses. [ Herrick ]
Religion, credit, and the eye are not to be touched. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Gain at the expense of credit must be set down as loss. [ Proverb ]
Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes. [ Chesterfield ]
A crown in pocket does you more credit than an angel spent. [ Proverb ]
We give no credit to a liar, even when he speaks the truth. [ Cicero ]
He that is known to have no money has no friends nor credit. [ Proverb ]
Credit lost is a Venice-glass broken, which cannot be soldered. [ Proverb ]
The credit that is got by a lie only lasts till the truth is out. [ Proverb ]
Brevity is the child of silence, and is a credit to its parentage. [ H. W. Shaw ]
That gentleman who sells an acre of land, sells an ounce of credit. [ Lord Burleigh ]
More credit may be thrown down in a moment, than can be built in an age. [ Proverb ]
Observed duties maintain our credit, but secret duties maintain our life. [ Flavel ]
Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. [ South ]
He will always lack what is best who does not give credit to what others know. [ Rückert ]
The credit that is got by a lie, lasts no longer than till the truth comes out. [ Proverb ]
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. [ Bulwer ]
With such deceits he gained their easy hearts, too prone to credit his perfidious arts. [ Dryden ]
Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place, credit decayed, and people that have of nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Many consent to be virtuous, only on condition that everybody will give them credit for it. [ De Finod ]
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth. [ Sterne ]
No man has a claim to credit upon his own word, when better evidence, if he had it, may be easily produced. [ Johnson ]
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! [ Montaigne ]
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
In matters of fact, they say there is some credit to be given to the testimony of men, but not in matters of judgment. [ Hooker ]
When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. [ Henry Taylor ]
Hence (from the ambition of Caesar) arise devouring usury, grasping interest, shaken credit, and war of advantage to many. [ Lucan ]
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes. [ Jane Porter ]
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them. [ Montaigne ]
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. [ Horace ]
After all, the head only reproduces what the heart creates; and so we give the mocking-bird credit when he imitates the loving murmurs of the dove. [ G. J. W. Melville ]
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our virtues. [ Balzac ]
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life. [ Sarah Ellis ]
No man's credit can fall so low but that, if he bear his shame as he should do, and profit by it as he ought to do, it is in his own power to redeem his reputation. [ Lord Nottingham ]
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. [ Burke ]
Someone once observed, and the observation did him credit, whoever he was, that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping. [ Albert Smith ]
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance; than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Colton ]
A man who knows the world, will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by the dexterity he displays in hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Sir R. B. Cotton ]
Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing. [ John Neal ]
The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. [ Heroidotus ]