Fame Quotes

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Voltaire

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

Anonymous

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Socrates

Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Benjamin Franklin

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

Napoléon Bonaparte

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis celebrities live off each other.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

Charles de Gaulle

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

To be somebody you must last.

The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

John Churton Collins

Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

Dean William R. Inge

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

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

Michel de Montaigne

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

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

Emily Dickinson

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

To many fame comes too late.

Luis de Camoens

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

Cleveland Amory

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

Bible

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.

William Shakespeare

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

Lord Chesterfield

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.

Sir George Savile

That sovereign of insufferables.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Missing what most of the time? The babbling faceless agora, the fame, the parties, the pop of flash bulbs? The lovers, the gaiety, the champagne? The solitude carved out of celebrity, poring over charts by a single lamp on a wide desk in a venerable hotel? Room service, coffee before dawn? The company of one friend, two? The choice: All of it or not? Some or none? Now, not now, maybe later?

That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associated the word with divorces and court appearances and rehab and jail time. He knew more than he wanted about all of those except rehab, and that was the one famous people blew off anyway.

Harry Turtledove

He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We’re all famous in our own hearts anyway.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot. They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.

Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She cracked a sexy smile with a side of condescension. “Jack, I’m not looking to know you.”No, she wasn’t, unless you counted biblically. She was looking for the guy who indiscriminately dated and bedded famous women. A guy whose life could be reduced to adjectives, most of them unflattering. That guy.

How can I have my 15 minutes of fame when open mics only allow you to perform for 10 minutes.

He who advances without seeking fame,Who retreats without escaping blame,He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,The man is a jewel of the Realm

Sun Tzu

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Emily Dickinson

Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like them? I mean, what is the point of becoming a writer if no one reads what you’ve written?Damn Viktor Greene and The New School. Why do I have to keep proving myself all of the time? Why can’t I be like L’il, with everyone praising and encouraging me? Or Rainbow, with her sense of entitlement. I bet Viktor Greene never asked Rainbow why she wanted to be a writer.Or what if-I wince-Viktor Greene is right? I’m not a writer after all.

Candace Bushnell

And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name.

Seneca

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!

I think it's nice for stars to do interviews to make us think they are just like us, but to tell you the truth, I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.

Stephen Chbosky

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