Nicknames Quotes

• A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Names, Forever, May

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• At present our only true names are nicknames.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Names

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.407, Penguin

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

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Humorous, Names, People

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.51

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• I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

  Ellen Page

  World, This World, Feels

  "Interview: Ellen Page Talks Whip It". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

  Alan Alda

  Well Known, Wells, Tagged

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• Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

  Edna Ferber

  Names, People, Giving

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

  Jennifer Lee

  Want, Reputation, Ifs

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• In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

  Snoop Dogg

  Real, Kids, Names

  "What I've Learned: Snoop Dogg" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Titles, Mark

  Thomas Paine (2012). “Rights of Man”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Argument, Eloquence

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.219

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• Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Motivation, Titles

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.46, e-artnow

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• You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

  Richard Roeper

  Giving, Wells

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

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Names, Devil

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters”, p.278

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• No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Humorous, Names

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• I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

  Steve Sabol

  Neat, Fascinated

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Names, Kitten, Force

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• Proper names are poetry in the raw.
  Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

  W. H. Auden

  Names

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• All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

  Taye Diggs

  Past, Infatuation, Know Me

  filmcritic.com Interview, www.imdb.com.

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• After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.

  Jay London

  Pride, Years, Causes

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• John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

  John Legend

  Men, Sound, Calling

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• A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Men, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.222

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• Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Strong, Children, Light

  Essays in Criticism First Series, "Heinrich Heine" (1865)

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• My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Compass, My Mom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

  John Lydon

  School, Years, Names

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• I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.

  Willem Dafoe

  Father, Names, Netherlands

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