Names Quotes

Recycling Tips – Old telephone books make great address books. Just cross out the names of people you don’t know.

A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly […]

Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers and can call them all by their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis. (Henry IV)

“Sir Jasper Finch-Farrowmere?” said Wilfred. “finch-farrowmere,” corrected the visitor, his sensitive ear detecting the capital letters.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named, not good.

New-made honor doth forget men’s names. (King John)

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.