Quotes on Fame

You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is to protect the people and promote the best interests of his sovereign, is the precious jewel of the state.