Quotes about fame

"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction."

Dante Alighieri on fame
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"We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to."

Davis, Bette on fame
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"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it."

Davis, Miles on fame   

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

Dickinson, Emily on fame
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"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."

Disraeli, Benjamin on fame   

"There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone."

Ellinger, Jules on fame   

"Fame is proof that the people are gullible."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fame
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"What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism."

Erasmus, Desiderius on fame   

"I was the only one there I never heard of."

Farber, Barry J. on fame   

"There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all."

Fuller, Thomas on fame   

"If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you."

Garland, Judy on fame
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"What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fame   

"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fame   

"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fame   

"There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!"

Hazlitt, William on fame   

"The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time."

Hazlitt, William on fame   

"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."

Hazlitt, William on fame   

"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."

Hellman, Lillian on fame   

"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on fame   

"How vain, without the merit, is the name."

Homer on fame   

"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."

Huxley, Aldous on fame
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"Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous."

Johnson, Don on fame   

"He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel."

Johnson, Samuel on fame   

"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."

Johnson, Samuel on fame   

"It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on fame   

"Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?"

Keats, John on fame
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"The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on fame   

"Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame."

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De on fame   

"Some people obtain fame, others deserve it."

Lessing, Doris on fame   

"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on fame   

"Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on fame   

"I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God."

Madonna on fame
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"I had it all and blew it."

Mantle, Mickey on fame   

"May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland."

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius on fame   

"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on fame   

"If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on fame   

"It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved."

Maugham, W. Somerset on fame
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"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."

Mencken, H. L. on fame