Names have values embodied in them. They carry baggage.
(John Sutherland, Who betrays Elizabeth Bennet?, 1999)
Jasper
November 2, 2009 at 5:45 pm (J, Male Names, Name Quotes A-Z)
Tags: Jasper, John Sutherland
Jasper is not a reassuring name, and from its overtones alone I deduce that John Jasper did indeed murder Edwin Drood. It could, however, be a case of ‘give a dog a bad name and hang him’.
(John Sutherland, Who betrays Elizabeth Bennet? 1999)
Fred
November 1, 2009 at 5:20 pm (F, Male Names, Name Quotes A-Z)
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‘Fred’ … seems to bring with it associations of weakness: as in Fred Vincy (Middlemarch) and Fred Neville (An eye for an eye), two of the weakest-kneed heroes found in the novel of the period.
(John Sutherland, Who betrays Elizabeth Bennet?, 1999)
