Despised Quote by Livy Download Open image “Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.” — Livy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despised Fame Glory
You can't really fault people who are experiencing fame. They're just making their way through, and everybody around them is reflecting this fame right… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part,… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Servius Sulpicius and M. Tullius were consuls the next year: nothing worth mentioning happened.” — Livy Copy Share Image
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. — Livy Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to follow the… — Livy Copy Share Image
“It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you… — Livy Copy Share Image
“There is never any lack at Athens of tongues ready and willing to stir up the passions of the common people; this kind of… — Livy Copy Share Image
“[Rhodian delegation:] Every city contains wicked citizens from time to time and an ignorant populace all the time.” — Livy Copy Share Image
You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration. — Khalil Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
