I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Names Quotes
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.
Can sick men play so nicely with their names? (Richard II)
Punch invariably referred to me as ” ‘Arry K ‘Arry’ and would then proceed to solemnly lecture me on the sin of mistaking vulgarity for humour and impertinence for wit.
My name is Ozymandelson, Queen of queens: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility – unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it – that goes by the cult name of “Camp.”
It is impossible to mingle in conversation without observing the difficulty with which a new name makes its way into the world. The first appearance of excellence unites multitudes against it; unexpected opposition rises up on every side; the celebrated and the obscure join in the confederacy; subtlety furnishes arms to impudence, and invention leads […]
The name we give to something shapes our attitude to it.
Say anything you like about me, but spell my name right.
