3,604 Quotes About Names

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

What’s in a name?‘ asks Shakespeare. ‘The love of the one calling it.‘ replies a lover.

...a name is almost always a sort of cowardice---an attempt to confine a thing to being only what it is, rather than what it may be.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.

When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton--go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday--I don't know why--and my father had no name at all--his identity and existence had been scrubbed by the ChronoGuard after he went rogue. To all intents and purposes he didn't exist at all. It didn't matter. He was always Dad to me...