Fame Quotes - Page 6

• Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
  [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

  Tacitus

  Character, Modest, Despised

  8 Copy quote

• Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

  Tyler Cowen

  Rooms, Visitors, Proust

  Tyler Cowen (2000). “What Price Fame?”, p.2, Harvard University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Self, Names, Employment

  7 Copy quote

• Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Shining, Intellectual, Sun

  7 Copy quote

• He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Practice, Reputation, Virtue

  7 Copy quote

• To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

  Honore de Balzac

  Wells, Desirable

  8 Copy quote

• Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Character, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.37

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

  Joseph Addison

  Soul, Desire, Fruition

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1728). “The Spectator”, p.22

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Prestige, Painter, Sooner Or Later

  7 Copy quote

• There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?

  Eva Green

  Strong, Hate, People

  13 Copy quote

• And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Vanity, Posthumous

  7 Copy quote

• To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1925). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

  Joseph Addison

  Action, Ultimate Happiness, Ultimate

  7 Copy quote

• Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Eagles, Wings

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.80

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
  [Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam;
  Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]

  Martial

  Men, Names, Giving

  7 Copy quote

• A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Tombs

  7 Copy quote

• The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

  Juvenal

  Rewards, Virtue, Embrace

  12 Copy quote

• Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Rewards, Virtue

  8 Copy quote

• Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

  John Milton

  Names, Wings, White

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.97

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Blow, Idols, Wind

  9 Copy quote

• The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Weakness, Lasts

  "Annales" (AD 117), IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 256-259), 1922.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Men, Lust

  10 Copy quote

• After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Vanity, Everlasting

  "The meditations of Marcus Aurelius". Book by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jeremy Collier, archive.org. 1887.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Stupidity, Fleeting, Riches

  7 Copy quote

• Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Guy, Lips, Standards

  7 Copy quote