nickname quotes

Ningue  m no cais tem um nome so  .Todos te"  m tambe  m um apelido ou abreviam o nome, ou o aumentam, ou lhe acrescentam qualquer coisa que recorde uma histo  ria, uma luta, um amor. No one onthe dockshasjust onename.Everybody has a nickname too, or the name is shortened, or lengthened, or something is added that recalls a tale, a fight, a woman.

-Jorge Amado
  Mar morto (Sea of Death,1984),'Iemanja ' .

And a wery good name it isonly one I know, that ain't got a nickname to it. 266

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Sam Weller comments on  Job Trotter's Christian name. Pickwick Papers, ch.16.

A nickname istheheaviest stonethatthe devil canthrow at a man.

-William Hazlitt
Sketches and Essays (published1839),'Nicknames'.