Quotes about fame

"Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months."

Miller, Henry on fame   

"The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States."

Mills, C. Wright on fame   

"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth."

Mills, C. Wright on fame   

"Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil."

Milton, John on fame   

"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown."

Milton, John on fame   

"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live."

Monroe, Marilyn on fame   

"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing."

Monroe, Marilyn on fame
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"All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fame
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"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."

Morrison, Van on fame   

"It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot."

Nabokov, Vladimir on fame   

"A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear."

Nicholson, Jack on fame   

"The love of glory gives an immense stimulus."

Ovid on fame   

"It is better to be a has-been than a never-was."

Parkinson, Cecil on fame   

"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

Pascal, Blaise on fame   

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"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."

Pascal, Blaise on fame   

"I want to be famous everywhere."

Pavarotti, Luciano on fame   

"Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true."

Picasso, Pablo on fame
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"Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen."

Pitt, Brad on fame   

"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it."

Pliny The Elder on fame   

"What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death."

Pope, Alexander on fame   

"'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!"

Pound, Ezra on fame   

"Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water."

Proverb, Chinese on fame   

"Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny."

Proverb, French on fame   

"Fame is a constant effort"

Renard, Jules on fame   

"Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity."

Rivarol, Antoine on fame   

"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.."

Rostand, Jean on fame   

"To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver."

Roth, Philip on fame   

"Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on fame   

"The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect."

Sade, Marquis De on fame   

"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."

Santayana, George on fame   

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"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on fame   

"Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on fame   

"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on fame   

"We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots."

Sewell, Thomas on fame   

"Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught."

Shakespeare, William on fame   

"Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent."

Shakespeare, William on fame
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"Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life."

Shakespeare, William on fame   

"Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes."

Shakespeare, William on fame   

"Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known."

Smyth, Dame Ethel on fame   

"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."

Socrates on fame   

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