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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques
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Best Quotes about Fame

1.
Fame hides her head among the clouds.
Virgil

2.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Erasmus, Desiderius

3.
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Caussin, Nicolas

4.
Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.
Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

5.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Hellman, Lillian

6.
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Johnson, Don

7.
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
Proverb, Chinese

8.
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.

9.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..
Rostand, Jean

11.
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

12.
I want to be famous everywhere.
Pavarotti, Luciano

13.
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

14.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Vanderbilt, Gloria

15.
The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

16.
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

17.
I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.
Salma Hayek

18.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Mills, C. Wright

19.
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Nabokov, Vladimir

20.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Dickinson, Emily

21.
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
Byron, Lord

22.
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

23.
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo

24.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Martial, Marcus Valerius

25.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Cicero, Marcus T.

26.
I had it all and blew it.
Mantle, Mickey

27.
Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
Jessica Alba

28.
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
Pitt, Brad

29.
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
Ellinger, Jules

30.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Cato The Elder

31.
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Franklin, Benjamin

32.
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
Crockett, Davy

33.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
Carlyle, Thomas

34.
Acquaintance lessens fame.
Claudius

35.
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)

36.
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
Benjamin Haydon

37.
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

38.
Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
Capote, Truman

39.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
Voltaire

40.
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Rivarol, Antoine

41.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Auden, W. H.

42.
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

43.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

44.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Davis, Bette

45.
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
Ovid

46.
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
Chuang-tzu

47.
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

48.
When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Carver, George Washington

49.
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Colton, Charles Caleb

50.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Parkinson, Cecil


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