Quotes about fame

"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."

Alda, Alan on fame   

"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens."

Alexander The Great on fame   

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."

Allen, Fred A. on fame
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"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

Auden, W. H. on fame   

"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid."

Bacon, Francis on fame   

"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

Bacon, Francis on fame   

"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."

Baum, Vicki on fame   

"Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else."

Bennett, Alan on fame   

"The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown."

Blake, William on fame   

"I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role."

Bono, Edward De on fame   

"People should realize we're jerks just like them."

Bono, Edward De on fame   

"Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on fame   

"A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on fame   

"Popular applause veers with the wind."

Bright, John on fame   

"But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity."

Browne, Sir Thomas on fame   

"There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work."

Bruyere, Jean De La on fame   

"Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!"

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on fame   

"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

Burke, Edmund on fame   

"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

Byron, Lord on fame   

"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."

Byron, Lord on fame   

"Fame is the thirst of youth."

Byron, Lord on fame
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"My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me."

Byron, Lord on fame   

"To many fame comes too late."

Camoens, Luis De on fame   

"Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town."

Capote, Truman on fame   

"Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man."

Carlyle, Thomas on fame   

"When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

Carver, George Washington on fame   

"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one."

Cato The Elder on fame   

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

Cato The Elder on fame   

"It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven."

Caussin, Nicolas on fame   

"If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne."

Cervantes, Miguel De on fame
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"Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on fame   

"Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life."

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De on fame   

"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fame   

"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fame   

"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fame   

"To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten."

Cioran, E. M. on fame   

"Acquaintance lessens fame."

Claudius on fame   

"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

Colton, Charles Caleb on fame   

"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."

Confucius on fame
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"Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!"

Crockett, Davy on fame