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)
Names Quotes
“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.
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We are called by different names, brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans – we are all federalists.
I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll because he was the first Humbert Humbert.
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
