Best Renown Quotes
44 Renown quotes by 40 unique authors
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All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
— William Shakespeare
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renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and…
— Polybius
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Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's…
— Frederick Lenz
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Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
— Maurice Sendak
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
— Edward Young
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So if you care to find me/ Look to the western sky/ As someone told me lately/ Everyone deserves the chance to fly!/ And if…
— Stephen Schwartz
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College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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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..
— Jean Rostand
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Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972…
— Elliott Abrams
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
— Samuel Daniel
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To set the cause above renown.
— Henry Newbolt
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Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the…
— Bible
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John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town.
— William Cowper
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The soft autumn breeze Whispers in our ears The weakness hits our knees As that special moment nears. The closer you come The tighter you…
— Unkown
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He was a great personality and a renown poet of Assam . He was one of those who will never die but will be remembered…
— Unknown Author
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Just because men of renown, such as Edgar Cayce, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, or even Nikola Tesla, say something; doesn't that it is true...or that everything…
— YourMaj3sty
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The inheritors of unfulfilled renown
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who Wrote These Renown Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 44 Renown Quotes, led by these top contributors: