Calumny Quote by William Benton Clulow

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

— Socrates

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ…

— Joseph Addison

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

— Sallust

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

— Mary MacLane

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

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

— Petrarch

Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

— Graham Greene

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat.,…

— Juvenal

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

— Lady Gaga

“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

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all,…

— Thomas Fuller

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

— John Milton