The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Mike Tyson has become larger than life.
Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.
you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally
It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, brother in law and your bottom.
You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn.
