Names Quotes

The glory and the nothing of a name.

(On being told that a friend had named his son Sam, after him) – Why did you do that? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam!

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?

Anonymity is a stern test of character. When we feel faceless and unidentified, it is temptingly easy to do things we otherwise wouldn’t. Elbowing our way out of elevators without saying “Excuse me.” Scooting into parking places that someone has staked out. Hanging up the phone instead of explaining that we dialed the wrong number. […]

“Don’t stand there chattering to yourself like that,’ Humpty Dumpty said, looking at her for the first time,’ but tell me your name and your business.’ “My name is Alice, but – ‘ ‘It’s a stupid name enough!’ Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. “What does it mean?’ “must a name mean something?’ Alice asked doubtfully. “Of […]

No, I know her by her other name. A name our well-meaning woman sisters have tried to wipe out – bitch.

‘It can’t be anybody else!’ she said to herself. ‘ I’m as certain of it, as if his name were written all over his face.’

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

The other day I was at a Barbie about 40 degrees Celsius in the shade, and I saw a bit of a Casanova mesmerizing a Marxist. Unluckily the post-Keynesian Maoist had Victorian values, and had also Mama Cassed herself with some Earl Grey tea and a pasteurized pavlova sandwich, and was in need of the […]

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.