“It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore, — Orley Farm.”

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Context: I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.
But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.

Testament to a Lost People

On the Epic of Evolution in &quot;Forum : Epic, Story, Narrative : A Cosmogen Dialogue&quot; in Epic of Evolution Quarterly (Fall 1998) http://www.thegreatstory.org/EpicStoryNarrative.pdf, p. 12 <br class="br">Context: We do have something of a story here, a true story, that we can work with religiously should we elect to do so. … There are clearly all sorts of flavors right now, just as there were when … Christianity was being put together, which took centuries to get the core in place and has been under revision ever since. Let&#x27;s keep talking!

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Maggie's Farm

Attributed by [Will, Hutton, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/02/economics-economy-john-keynes, Will the real Keynes stand up, not this sad caricature?, Guardian, November 2, 2008, 2009-02-05] <br class="br">Actual quote: &quot;the Stock Exchange revalues many investments every day and the revaluations give a frequent opportunity to the individual (though not to the community as a whole) to revise his commitments. It is as though a farmer, having tapped his barometer after breakfast, could decide to remove his capital from the farming business between 10 and 11 in the morning and reconsider whether he should return to it later in the week.&quot; <br class="br"> The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1935), Ch. 12 http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/general-theory/ch12.htm <br class="br">Attributed

The Art of Persuasion
Context: One of the principal reasons that diverts those who are entering upon this knowledge so much from the true path which they should follow, is the fancy that they take at the outset that good things are inaccessible, giving them the name great, lofty, elevated, sublime. This destroys everything. I would call them low, common, familiar: these names suit it better; I hate such inflated expressions.

The Unsettling of America : Culture & Agriculture (1996), p. 62

On his earliest political campaigning, quoted in Tommy Douglas (1983) by Doris French Shackleton, p. 68.

As quoted in &quot;Chatter at 40,000 Feet&quot; by Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post (14 June 2000) http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/55152830.html?dids=55152830:55152830&amp;FMT=ABS&amp;FMTS=ABS:FT&amp;date=JUN+15%2C+2000&amp;author=Howard+Kurtz&amp;pub=The+Washington+Post&amp;desc=Chatter+at+40%2C000+Feet%3B+Next+to+Bush%2C+a+First-Class+Schmoozer%2C+Gore&#x27;s+in+Coach&amp;pqatl=google.