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Quotes About Infamy

It doesn't seem like life will change very much for Martin Shkreli, basically ever.
~ Martin Shkreli
People like scandals.
~ Blanka Vlasic
Richard wrote back: Dear Sean: Stay in touch and hit 'em again. Richard Ramirez, 666. Penn said Ramirez masturbated excessively. "He was like an animal in heat. He had pictures of his victims on his cell walls. He kept them up with toothpaste.
~ Philip Carlo
I rob banks for a living, what do you do?
~ John Dillinger
Hitler was a vegetarian.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
God made Himself totally a man but a man to the point of infamy, a man to the point of reprobation and the abyss. To save us, He could have chosen *any* of the destinies which make up the complex web of history; He could have been Alexander or Pythagoras or Rurik or Jesus; He chose the vilest destiny of all: He was Judas.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
~ Buffalo Bill
I don't think there will ever be a GG box set.
~ GG Allin
You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.
~ Howie Carr
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
~ Joseph Conrad
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.
~ Washington Irving
You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.
~ Dave Chappelle
And I have to tell you,' he continued a little worriedly, 'that the tales of its barbarous and primitive manners are myriad. We are in a savage place here – Doctor, was it? – a place of infamy and the fecund darkness of the death of gentility. . .
~ Dave Stone
When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue, From poison'd maw when Treason weaves his line, And Muse apostate (infamy to song!) Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine.
~ James Beattie
The worse the author, the more he is known.
~ James Purdy
All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.*
~ Akhlak-i-Jalali
Aileen Wuornos, Belle Gunness, and . . . A quick search on the internet gives me Juana Barraza, Jane Toppan, and Nannie Doss.
~ Rachel Howzell Hall
It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.
~ Randall Wallace
At the same pace that mankind masters nature, man seems to become enslaved to other men or to his own infamy. Even the pure light of science seems unable to shine but on the dark background of ignorance. All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856
~ Karl Marx
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.
~ John Philpot Curran
When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
~ Edward Young
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
~ Dan Quayle
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
~ William Hazlitt
OK, so I'm not famous for the right reasons.
~ William Hung