Quotes About Infamy

he was warning the Senate of "a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.

This was arguably the most disgraceful episode in the bishop's chequered career,

And ignominie, yet to glorie aspires   Vain glorious, and through infamie seeks fame:   Therfore Eternal silence be thir doome.

La fuerza separada de la verdad y de la justicia no es digna de alabanza y sólo merece el desprecio y la ignominia, aunque jactanciosa aspire a la gloria y busque el renombre por la infamia: sea por tanto un eterno silencio su castigo.

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.

The life cycle of public disgrace has been condensed to where the actual offense gets washed away, leaving just a neutral sheen of notoriety.

Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

The public couldn't get enough; writers such as Braddon reaped a new financial harvest with every book. She admitted that she cranked out some volumes as bill-paying hack work. Once she complained to Bulwer Lytton that "the amount of crime, treachery, murder, slow poisoning & general infamy required by the halfpenny reader is something terrible,

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

As late as 1842, "squatter" was still considered a "term, denoting infamy of life or station," of a lesser rank than the class-neutral "settler.

A day of infamy. It will forever be remembered among my people as our lowest moment. Our darkest time.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I will either be famous or infamous.

Ozzy, is it true you got busted for pissing on the Alamo?' he asked me. 'Yeah,' I told him. 'It's true.' 'Shit, man,' he said. 'We piss on it every night on our way home.'

hate to say this but you could become the Pablo Escobar of the new millennium.

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Super gun,' can you imagine?" Karl Walter would muse more than two decades later. Shaking his head, he chuckled. "You can't buy that kind of attention, not for $50 million, not for $100 million.

lest the one who hears may disgrace you, and your infamy never go away.

Those near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.