Books Quote by Michel De Montaigne

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

— Blaise Pascal

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

— Anderson Cooper

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

— Erica Jong

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck…

— Samuel Johnson

There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of…

— Justine Bateman

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able…

— Samuel Johnson

I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it.

— Andrew Garfield

So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been after fame.…

— Moshe Kasher

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

— Franz Grillparzer

“Fame in our day is too common to be confused with the enduring glow around the deserving book.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero