#infamy

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter... ↗

— Clive Barker

#child #infamy #age

My name is a half an hour early, but my body is on time. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#aspire #body #early #fame #infamy

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#infamy #nationality #success

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#infamy #right-and-wrong #fame

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#life #live #unworthy #who

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. ↗

— Ludwig Tieck

#brow #dead #departs #even #fame

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? ↗

— Robert Walpole

#before #disgrace #forty #forty years #house

It is an infamy to die and not be missed. ↗

— Carlos Wilcox

#infamy #missed