Fame Quotes - Page 4

• It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

  Nicolas Caussin

  Heaven, Earth, Speak

  Nicolas CAUSSIN (1678). “The Holy Court ... The third edition. L.P.”, p.386

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• The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Ambition, Names

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.269, Delphi Classics

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• Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Issues, Excellence, Mediocrity

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• The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

  Tacitus

  Men, Reluctant, Wisest

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• One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

  Walter Scott

  Birthday, Names, Glorious Life

  Sir Walter Scott (1820). “Waverly Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortality”, p.608

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• Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Money, Children, Character

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• renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hands, Littles, Degrees

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.181, 谷月社

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• Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

  Alexander Pope

  Favors, Ifs

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.230

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• Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stones, Becoming, Building

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”

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• Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

  John Dryden

  Needs, Impossible, Should

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.256

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• Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy

  Bennett Cerf

  Crazy, Madness

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• It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

  Lillian Hellman

  Change, Women, People

  Pentimento "Theatre" (1973)

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• Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Cute, Warfare

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• I would like to be famous but unknown.

  Edgar Degas

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• When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Risk, Pieces

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• I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hogwash, Sentimental, Nonsense

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• The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

  Barack Obama

  Wife, Politics, Littles

  "'Run Obama! Run!' Could this be the next US president?" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2006.

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• It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

  Juvenal

  Wretched

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, VIII, line 76, 1890.

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• People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hate, People, Hatred

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• The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

  Steve Martin

  Unbearable, Moments, Knows

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. May, 2005.

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• I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Bored, Use

  Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"

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• It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Truth, Men, Bed

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• Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  A. A. Milne

  Success, Writing, States

  A. A. Milne “Not That It Matters”, Lulu.com

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• One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

  Edward Young

  Art, Fear, War

  The Love of Fame Satire 7, l. 55 (1725 - 1728) See Porteus 1; Jean Rostand 1

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