Able Quote by Samuel Johnson

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

— Tacitus

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

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must…

— Washington Allston

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

— Annie Lennox

Fame is directly related to the kind of support you have from an audience and the love and support I have from audience is…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

— Lady Gaga

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

— Epicurus

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

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

To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“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