Quotes about Infamy

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

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

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

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.

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

A vile race of quislings—to use the new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries.

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.

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

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.

December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy

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!