Quotes About Notorious

That's probably why I've become popular, because everyone's view of me is extremely polarized.

When a Hathaway caused a scandal, they never did it by half measures

Rue's pulse quickens as she recognizes Dianne Klister. A notorious criminal lawyer in this town, and a media whore.

Manson the martyr.

And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people's champion.

You dog, how dare you speak to me like that!" "What, is the notorious Pirate Queen a mewing virgin and not the spitting tiger she pretends to be?" "What I am is something you'll not find out in a devil's decade!" "I beg to differ"—he grinned rakishly—"madam."

The villain is the character that the people remember.

Does it follow, then, that progressives and socialists are entirely wrong when they say that there are rich people in the top 1 percent who are greedy selfish leeches, who don't deserve their money and who have gotten it by contributing little or nothing to society? Actually, no! Such people do exist, and they can be found among the ranks of the progressives and socialists themselves. Let's consider a few notorious examples.

Willie Sutton was one of the most notorious, infamous and frequently quoted figures of the twentieth century—yet little is known about him. From the 1920s to the 1950s he robbed dozens of banks, made off with perhaps two million dollars and escaped three maximum security prisons—but how? And why? Who was Willie Sutton and what drove him?

Is your badness so varied that it is still delightful? I expect anything gets boring after a while.' He looked at her with interest. 'How perceptive you are. It takes a good deal of effort to keep badness from being boring. One must seek out new experiences and challenges. Our mutual friends may think I have an easy life, but being notorious is grueling work after a few years.

Had it not been for two notorious murders in the early 1980s, Ada would have gone unnoticed by the world. And that would have been just fine with the good folks of Pontotoc County.

notorious adulterer who compounded his sin by cavorting 'with holy nuns and virgins consecrated to God'.

That wench gets around like a chain letter.

I am notorious for making impassioned speeches about things nobody cares about.

My claims were justified in all men's sight; I put my trust in equity and right; Yet, to my horror and the world's disgrace, Justice is mocked, and I have lost my case! A scoundrel whose dishonesty is notorious Emerges from another lie victorious!

Herzl wrote The Jewish State, his path-breaking manifesto of Zionism, in 1895 under the influence of Wagner, one of the nineteenth century's most notorious anti-Semites.

In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages.

At that time they were holding a notorious prisoner named Barabbas.