Quotes with nickname

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• A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

  Round table

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

  Alan Alda
  American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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• I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
  

  Stephen Hawking
  English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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• Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

  Sketches and Essays, On Nicknames

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

  Thomas Paine
  English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unanswerable
• classmates
• potential
• eloquence
• arguments
• nicknames

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