Fame Quotes - Page 9

• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Shadow, Virtue

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 45), translated, 45 BC.

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• 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!

  Davy Crockett

  Pigs, Hands, Tails

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• I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

  Johnny Depp

  Hate, Shy, Use

  "I do not know what is sexy about me, says Johnny Depp". Interview with Aakanksha Naval-Shetye, www.dnaindia.com. May 21, 2012.

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• 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.

  Thomas Fuller

  Art, Echoes, World

  "The Holy State and the Profane State". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1642.

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• When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Desire, Actresses, Wanted

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• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Music, Death, Winning

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1859). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table ...”, p.355

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• Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

  Bill Maher

  Numbers, Comedy, Pool

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• Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Fickle, Drawbacks

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• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  Van Morrison

  Disappointing, Drag, Stills

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• Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Writing, Wish, Desire

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• I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  J. K. Rowling

  Would Be, Famous Writers, Austen

  "'Harry is a lot, lot, lot angrier in this book'". Interview with Jeremy Paxman, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 20, 2003.

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• Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 1, l. 135

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• To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dying, Want, Recycling

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• There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Soul, Has Beens, Great Souls

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.38, Nayika Publishing

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• 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.

  Jean Rostand

  Respect, Renown, Contempt

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• 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?

  John Keats

  Wish, Crowds, Littles

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.328, Harvard University Press

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• Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Losing, Reputation

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.394

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• I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.

  Shania Twain

  Want, Reputation

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• A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Motivational, Stars

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• The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Flames, Ashes

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.735, Delphi Classics

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• He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Fear, Criticism, Genius

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.25

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• Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

  John Dryden

  Firsts, Sped

  John Dryden (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works ; Now First Collected, with Notes and Illustrations”, p.226

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• Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

  Don DeLillo

  Fascination, Secrecy, Ends

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Mean, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.43, 谷月社

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