Fame Quotes

I consider myself more exportant than important.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Fame is not like a jacket. You can't put it on and then take it off.

The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

I say, without characters, fame lives long.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.

Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

I wouldn't change anything for the world, although the fame part of this [entertainment] industry is tough to handle at times.

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.

Whenever I'm feeling a bit down, I always visit the local children's hospital. Knowing that those cancer-kids wont be able to live long enough to surpass me in fame just warms my heart, you know?

I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for fame. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.

I don't feel like I have a super straightforward relationship with the idea of fame. It makes me sort of level things out in my own brain almost immediately when I meet someone.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.

Vell, Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Kleos is sometimes translated as "acoustic renown" the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following.

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?''No, I have not.''Well, well, such is fame!

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.

Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.