Quotes About Infamy

On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.

The world has a talent for rewarding bad behavior with stardom

The world has a talent for rewarding bad behaviour with stardom

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

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

Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.

The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

Those are rare who fall without becoming degraded; there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Misérables.

Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes of God when he returned to infamy in the eyes of men.

Alas! that was the greatest of sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the final step to be taken, but he must do it. Mournful destiny! he could only enter into the sanctity in the eyes of God, by returning into infamy in the eyes of men!

At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without

Finally, he said to himself that it was a necessity, that his destiny was so fixed, that it was not for him to derange the arrangements of God, that at all events he must choose, either virtue without, and abomination within, or sanctity within, and infamy without.

I'm known for snatching purses, and bombing churches, I get more pussy by accident than most niggas get on purpose.

A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage. What's needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury.

Kate Webster had ensured her place in the murderers' hall of fame by attacking her mistress with the axe, hacking the corpse to pieces, and boiling down the remains in the copper, removing the bones. Most grisly of all was the fate of the fat. Webster had scooped the fat from the copper and sold it around the neighbourhood as dripping. One street urchin even claimed Webster had offered him a bowl