Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity. — Tacitus
Short Notorious Quotes
Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did. — Judah Smith
I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so. — Erik Satie
Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. — Richard E. Grant
Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise. — Tom Upton
Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish. — Clement Freud
It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories. — Rachel Hunter
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. — Rumi
Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era. — Big Sean
Swindlers are notoriously gullible. — Mason Cooley
Notorious Image Quotes
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Most Notorious Quotes
Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement. — Josie Maran
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals. — Charles Caleb Colton
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. — Fulton J. Sheen
The design of the notorious Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot" in the 2000 Presidential election is certainly one of them. But I would say most of the time this is less about a conscious attempt to manipulate an outcome, and more about pure ineptitude. — Michael Bierut
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers] — Thurgood Marshall
Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing. — Truman Capote
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here. — John Ortberg
I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity. — Jorge Luis Borges
The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws. — John Dingell
Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category. — Anita Baker
I want people talking about me when I'm gone. — Jake Paul
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again. — Patrick Stump
After I saw how badly animals were treated to en up in our plates, how bad it was for our health and for the environment, I decided to stop this nonsense and educate others. After all, animals can’t talk and they need people that have notoriety like me to be their voices. — Georges Laraque
Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety? — Edouard Manet
I cant think of any negative [aspects of working in the wrestling industry]. The positive are the money, the comradery, the prestige, the notoriety. A lot of pluses. — Ric Flair
renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand. — Ambrose Bierce
As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor. — Abraham Cowley
Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him. — Joseph Addison
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight. — Valerie Trierweiler
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state — Thomas Jefferson
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion. — Molly Ivins
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience. — Doris Humphrey
I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself. — Rock Hudson
I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,. — George Lucas
It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns — Molly O'Neill
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself. — Mahatma Gandhi
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight. — John Lahr
My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you’re at a profit.” “How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.” “I can forge signatures as well.” “Splendid. Exactly the bride I’ve been hoping for. — Shana Abe
Entrepreneurs are notorious for “idea churn”—starting something new, only to abandon it for another idea. — Pat Flynn
The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.' — David Finkelstein
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. — William Lloyd Garrison
It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows. — Desmond Tutu
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational. — Horace Greeley
How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party — Joseph Addison
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise. — Mark Twain
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. — Erich Fromm
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. — Minna Antrim
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life. — Charles Darwin
It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times. — William Prynne
There're always some notorious people in the crew who are doing crazy things, but I try to keep it a little more low-key. My crazy thing is always just the show and putting all my energy into it. — Hoodie Allen
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; as an old writer quaintly says, A dog is the only thing on this earth that luvs you more than he luvs himself. — Dr. Lauder Lindsay
People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others. These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism". Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?! — Yusuf al-Qaradawi
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity. — Edmund Ruffin
The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious. — John Harvey Kellogg
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. — Nelson Goodman
There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious. — Frank Stella
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth. — Periander
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in. — Trace Adkins
Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any. — Sayings
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders. — Adam Phillips
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin. — William Bolitho
When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious. — Clive James
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