Fame Quotes - Page 11

• But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

  Thomas Browne

  Memories, Men, Merit

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

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• Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Literature, Warhol, Made

  "Public Speaking". Documentary, 2010.

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• 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.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Men, Rewards

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• 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.

  George Sewell

  Sleep, Inspire, Clay

  George Sewell (1719). “The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields”, p.12

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• The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

  Colley Cibber

  Ephesians, Fool, Youth

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• Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

  William Shakespeare

  Circles, Water, Glory

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Way, Comedy, Quiet

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

  Alan Alda

  People, Genius, Use

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Men, Legends

  Quoted in International Herald Tribune, 17 July 1991

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• Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Equal, Best Things

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.83, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  Francis Bacon

  Light, Rivers, Swollen

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Praise'

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• Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fate, Destiny, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1877, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Hard Work, Humor

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• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Tests, Merit

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

  John Milton

  Soil, Plant, Grows

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 78

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• The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Way, Humans

  "Elvis Culture : Fans, Faith, & Image" by Erika Lee Doss, (p. 218), 1999.

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• Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Long, May

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• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Ideas, Survival, Important

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• Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Lying, Knights, Knighthood

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "Eternity and Eternity" (p. 32), 1999.

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• Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Conquest, Conqueror

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.126

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• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.44

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• After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

  Cato the Elder

  Life, Witty, Clever

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• The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wind, Long, Earth

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatoria, Song XI, 100, 1321.

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• My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Umpires, Careers, Vip

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• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962; later quoted in Ms. Magazine, August 1972.

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