Doe Quote by Robert Harris

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own…

— Walter Savage Landor

“The passion for naming things is an odd human trait. It is strange that men always feel so much more at ease when they…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

— Bentley Little

Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing;…

— Stefan Zweig

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

— William Penn

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

— Learned Hand

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

— Pliny the Elder

“So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is…

— Steven Pinker

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe