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

  Nombres

  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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• Los apodos son nombres cariñosos. No se los ponemos a las personas que nos caen mal.

  Edna Ferber

  Nombres, Personas, Dar

  Edna Ferber (1939). "Un Tesoro Peculiar"

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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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• De toda elocuencia, un apodo es el más conciso; de todos los argumentos, el más incontestable.

  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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• Siempre me han fascinado los apodos bonitos.

  Steve Sabol

  Neat, Fascinated

  "Citas personales/ Biografía". www.imdb.com.

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• Cuando salgo con las señoras, no las obligo a pronunciar mi nombre. Les digo que me gusta ir con el apodo de Gatita.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Names, Kitten, Force

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• Los nombres propios son poesía en bruto.
  Como toda poesía, son intraducibles.

  W. H. Auden

  Nombres

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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 Londres

  Pride, Years, Causes

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• John legend es un apodo con el que alguien empezó a llamarme hace tiempo y en parte es porque sueno como un anciano cuando canto.

  John Legend

  Hombres, Sonido, Llamada

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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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• Yo nací William. Mi padre era William. Venía de una familia numerosa, odiaba que me llamaran Billy. Willem es un apodo; es un nombre holandés, muy común en Holanda.

  Willem Dafoe

  Father, Names, Netherlands

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