Timeline for A proverb «Talk bad, talk nice about me, but just talk»
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| Jun 1, 2021 at 11:38 | comment | added | fdb | @SebastianKoppehel. Lord Henry (who says these precise words) is Oscar Wilde's self portrait. You cannot separate the two. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 9:29 | comment | added | tony | @Sebastian Koppehel: I like your invocation of Oscar Wilde. Are you going to translate it? A wild guess: "unus qui est peior quam famam habens, non famam habens." = "The one-and-only (thing) that is worse than fame/ gossip/ ill-repute is not having..." | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 8:53 | comment | added | tony | @Jessy B: Hazarding a guess: "narrent me in gloria, narrent me in ignominia, dum narrent" = "Let them discuss me in glory, let them discuss me in shame, as long as they discuss me." | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 12:12 | history | edited | Ignoramus Philomathum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 11:08 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | @tony The question did indeed ask for a Latin proverb. This answer says there is none (but claims like that are hard to justify so it's hard to say more). Perhaps there simply is no suitable proverb in Latin, but there are some in other languages. It might also be that the phrase the OP heard was a translation from English to Latin, so the Latin is not original. So yes, we'd like to have the original Latin – if it happens to exist. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 8:31 | comment | added | tony | @Jessy B: Don't we need the original Latin? | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 0:14 | comment | added | Sebastian Koppehel | Another English version is: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." - generally attributed to Oscar Wilde, and not without reason, as something very close is found in the first chapter of The Picture of Dorian Gray (though not as Wilde's opinion, rather that of a character in the book). Another version: "There's no such thing as bad publicity". But we are not looking for English quotes, are we? | |
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| Oct 6, 2020 at 15:52 | history | answered | Ignoramus Philomathum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |