Notorious Quotes - Page 2

• Martin Luther King is a notorious liar[]

  John G. Schmitz

  Kings, Liars, Luther

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• Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

  Tom Upton

  Snitch, Librarian, Convince

  Tom Upton (2016). “Fading Away”, p.90, Tom Upton

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• It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times.

  William Prynne

  Girl, Play, Theatre

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• The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.

  John Dingell

  Law, Doe, Nuclear

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• Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

  Prince Philip

  Country, Classic, Endangered Species

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• I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Thinking, People, Should

  "Agent provocateur" by Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2005.

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• Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

  Euripides

  Children, Successful, Men

  Orestes, l.542-3 (translated by M L West, 1987).

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• It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

  James Kern Feibleman

  Obscurity, Obscure

  James Kern Feibleman (1978). “New proverbs for our day”, Horizon House Pubs

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• How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

  Joseph Addison

  Liars, Party, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator”, p.601

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• It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Memories, Trustworthy, Burden

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.116, Delphi Classics

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• Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

  Saadi

  Ignorance, Conversation, Fund

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• When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

  John Lahr

  Media, Delight, Made

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• Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

  Selma James

  Revolution, Telling The Truth, Rebellious

  Selma James (1983). “The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys”, Falling Wall Pr

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• My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you’re at a profit.” “How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.” “I can forge signatures as well.” “Splendid. Exactly the bride I’ve been hoping for.

  Shana Abe

  Years, Two, Signatures

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• A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

  Alain de Botton

  Suicide, Animal, Inability

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

  Erik Satie

  Modesty, Superiors

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• God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Plato, Men, Oxford

  "In Victorian Days and Other Papers" by Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair, New York: Longmans, (p. 122), 1939.

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• It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.

  William Hazlitt

  Blessing, Past, Long

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1176, Delphi Classics

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• My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.

  Quincy Jones

  Wine, Home, Gun

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Mother, Children, Women

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• It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

  Cornelia Funke

  Real, People, World

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.208, Chicken House

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• Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

  E. Lockhart

  Impact, Rejection, Appreciated

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.213, Hot Key Books

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• Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

  Kerry Cohen

  Artist, Affair, Housing

  Kerry Cohen (2008). “Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity”, p.236, Hachette UK

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• Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

  Rachel Hunter

  Kings, Animal, Scorpions

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• I love him for his sake;
  And yet I know him a notorious liar,
  Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
  Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him
  That they take place when virtue's steely bones
  Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
  Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Liars, I Love Him, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.217

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