3 quotes about Nicknames

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Hazlitt, William

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Paine, Thomas