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Letter "N" » Nicknames
«Chance is a nickname of Providence»
«Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of light.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
chosen people, dogged, nickname, Nicknames, opponent, originally, Philistine, The Chosen, unenlightened
«My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.»
«I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.»
«No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
nicknamed, Nicknames, nicknaming, orator, top
«Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.»
«Nicknames are vulgar. Only common people use them.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
common people, nicknamed, Nicknames, nicknaming, vulgar
«A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man»
«Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
concise, eloquence, nickname, nicknamed, Nicknames, nicknaming, unanswerable
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