The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
Names Quotes
I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. (Henry IV)
Acts of grace cannot be reversed. God blots out his people’s sins, but not their names.
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)
