All Quotes by Names
“I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die.”
“Let us not get into the habit of names. Names are dangerous.”
“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.”
“The unnameable is the eternally real. of all particular things.”
“The tao that can be described By having desire, you can only see what is visibly real.”
“Love is my name.”
“The rulers wanted to fool people, since they saw that people have a kinship with what is truly good. They took the names of the good and assigned them to what is not good, to fool people with names and link the names to what is not good. So, as if they were doing people a favor, they took names from what is not good and transferred them to the good, in their own way of thinking. For they wished to take free people and enslave them forever.”
“A good name is better than precious ointment.”
“There be of them that have left a name behind them.”
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.”
“My name is Legion.”
“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.”
“The name of Jehovah is a strong tower. Into it the righteous runs and is given protection.”
“Oh! no! we never mention her,That once familiar word.”
“He left a Corsair's name to other times,Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.”
“I have a passion for the name of "Mary," Where I beheld what never was to be.”
“Oh, Amos Cottle!—Phœbus! what a name!”
“Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame,The power of grace, the magic of a name.”
“Ah! replied my gentle fair, Only, only, call me thine.”
“Some to the fascination of a name,Surrender judgment hoodwinked.”
“"Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really thought that it was I.”
“Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."”
“The dodgerest of all the dodgers.”
“Called me wessel, Sammy—a wessel of wrath.”
“He lives who dies to win a lasting name.”
“Above any Greek or Roman name.”
“The blackest ink of fate was sure my lot,And when fate writ my name it made a blot.”
“I cannot say the crow is white, But needs must call a spade a spade.”
“My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.”
“One of the few, the immortal names,That were not born to die.”
“A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.”
“Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.”
“My name is Norval; on the Grampian hillsAnd keep his only son, myself, at home.”
“And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.”
“He left the name, at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.”
“Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde,But boldly nominate a spade a spade.”
“Have heard her sigh and soften out the name.”
“Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.”
“The name that dwells on every tongue,No minstrel needs.”
“I, a parrot, am taught by you the names of others; I have learned of myself to say, "Hail! Cæsar!"”
“O name forever sad! forever dear!Still breath'd in sighs, still usher'd with a tear.”
“Byzantine Logothete.”
“Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue.”
“I am the last of my race. My name ends with me.”
“My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!”
“Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.”
“The one so like the otherAs could not be distinguish'd but by names.”
“I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.”
“Then shall our names,Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.”
“And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter;For new-made honour doth forget men's names.”
“When we were happy we had other names.”
“I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.”
“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,And makes me poor indeed.”
“What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.”
“I do beseech you—What is your name?”
“I am thankful that my name is obnoxious to no pun.”
“Ye say they all have passed away, Ye may not wash it out.”
“And last of all an Admiral came,But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.”
“I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.”
“And the best and the worst of this is And I have forgotten your name.”
“The myrtle that grows among thorns is a myrtle still.”
“No sound is breathed so potent to coerceNobly to do, nobly to die.”
“O, Sophonisba, Sophonisba, O!”
“Charmed with the foolish whistling of a name.”
“Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire.”
“Where a man calls himself by a name which is not his name, he is telling a falsehood.”
“Nihil facit error nominis owm de corpore constat: An error as to a name is nothing when there is certainty as to the person.”
“Any one may take upon him what surname, and as many surnames as he pleases without an Act of Parliament.”