Quotes About Infamy

To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!

I like my mug shot. I think I have a really great mug shot. It looks like a magazine shoot.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't believe you've arrived until you get a stalker.

You can't get unfamous. You can get infamous but you can't get unfamous.

Oh well, he had that whole sex-tape scandal thing with his secretary and those chickens, so his opinion on most anything doesn't matter anymore.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

Of the three popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim: he fled and was brought back a prisoner: the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy and incest

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

I don't want to know anything but this perpetual wailing, this clatter in the night, this delay, this infamy, this pursuit, this inexistence.

There will be no jury to stand between the judges who are to pronounce the sentence of the law, and the party who is to receive or suffer it. The awful discretion which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.

Regard to reputation has a less active influence when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one.

I have the high honor of being the only person who has been compared to Marie Antoinette, Darth Vader, and Cruella de Vil at once.

Les guerres sont toujours une providence pour les criminels. La violence tout à coup devient sainte ; pourvu qu'ils sachent mimer la dévotion, au moins en paroles, licence leur est donnée par un Dieu d'accomplir les infamies dont ils ont longtemps rêvé. (Partie IV Sienne, Ch. 3)

Charlie was booked as "MANSON, CHARLES M., AKA JESUS CHRIST, GOD.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

My poor cooking is legendary among my friends.

Heidi Fleiss I befriended because she and I went through something of the same nature. And when word reached the tabloids, bless their little hearts, they decided here was something they could make money with.

Wilson emphasizes that this model describes not only many, many infamous criminals, but quite a few of the more infamous statesmen and churchmen of history, who were not called criminals only because they were powerful enough to define what was crime in their society. Since these types have a strong power drive, most of history, as Wilson sees it, is Criminal History, the record of the crimes of one type of male.

The reporter said, Why do you rob banks? And Sutton replied, Because that's where the money is.