Quotes of Infamy - somelinesforyou

“ There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ If something is leaked to the press, the bigmouth will be tracked down and punished. Scandals aren't public scandals if you get there before you enemies do. ”

- Mike Royko

“ There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away. ”

- Ken Kesey

“ Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy. ”

- Dario Fo

“ The only shame is to have none. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ 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

“ Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy. ”

- Jose Maria Anzar

“ 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. ”

- Tieck

“ Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! ”

- Marquis de Sade

“ 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

“ The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. ”

- Hermann Hesse

“ Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added. ”

- Samuel Johnson
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