Best Quotes about Fame
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare
People should realize we're jerks just like them.
Bono, Edward De
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Cato The Elder
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Davis, Bette
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
Mills, C. Wright
The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Warhol, Andy
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
Pound, Ezra
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Dickinson, Emily
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Nabokov, Vladimir
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Huxley, Aldous
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
Cervantes, Miguel De
A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
Boorstin, Daniel J.
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri
Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Picasso, Pablo
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Garland, Judy
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Johnson, Don
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
Pitt, Brad
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
Chateaubriand, Vicomte De
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Martial, Marcus Valerius
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
Roth, Philip
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial, Marcus Valerius
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Baum, Vicki
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Bacon, Francis
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. Rowling
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Hazlitt, William
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo
If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?
Laura Preble
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Vanderbilt, Gloria
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
Benjamin Haydon
Popular applause veers with the wind.
Bright, John
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.
Boorstin, Daniel J.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Thoreau, Henry David
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
Monroe, Marilyn
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
Proverb, French
Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.
Miller, Henry
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
Keats, John
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Hellman, Lillian
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
Updike, John
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Alda, Alan
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
Maugham, W. Somerset
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Cioran, E. M.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
Voltaire
We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.
Sewell, Thomas
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Fuller, Thomas
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
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