Infamy Quotes

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

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Virtue
  • Crime
  • Heroism

• If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Memories
  • Ability
  • Conversation

• The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Violent
  • Pirate
  • Flavor

• Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

  

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Virtue
  • Authorship
  • Infamy

• It is infamy to die, and not be missed.

  

  Carlos Wilcox
  • Infamy

• 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
  • House
  • Before
  • Posterity