Empty Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

Fame is nothing but an empty name.

— Charles Churchill

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

— Franz Grillparzer

“There are no names that do not desire fame because we come from God.”

— Sorin Cerin

Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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

— William Hazlitt

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

— Joni Mitchell

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame…

— Alanis Morissette

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

— Richard O'Brien

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

— John Milton

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

— James Grainger