The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
To myself alone do I owe my fame.
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.
Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.
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.
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
If fame goes by, 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 experience, but that's not where I live.
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.
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