Quotes about nicknames

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

— William Hazlitt

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

— Thomas Paine