Fame Quotes

2089 Fame quotes by 1424 unique authors

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the… — Alexander Smith
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often… — Shawn Fanning
Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all… — George Eliot
The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great. — Michel de Montaigne
We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak. — Michel de Montaigne
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and… — Robert Fulghum
As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not… — Plato
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading… — Thomas Jefferson
When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of… — Oscar Wilde
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so. — William Hazlitt
Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality. — John Updike
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned… — Virginia Woolf
Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of… — Washington Irving
Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere. — Jean Cocteau
I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants. — Ricky Gervais
A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes. — Dante Alighieri
I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent… — Juliana Hatfield
Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work… — Mary E. DeMuth
I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to… — Sadie Robertson
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win… — Martial
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. — Tacitus
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody. — Publilius Syrus
Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few. — Louis L'Amour
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene… — Andre Gide

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