Fame Quotes

84 quotations about Fame
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Miles Davis · Fame
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson · Fame
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
Jules Ellinger · Fame
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Fame
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Desiderius Erasmus · Fame
I was the only one there I never heard of.
Barry J. Farber · Fame
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Benjamin Franklin · Fame
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Fame
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Fame
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
William Hazlitt · Fame
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman · Fame
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes · Fame
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Homer · Fame
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley · Fame
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Don Johnson · Fame
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal · Fame
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld · Fame
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Doris Lessing · Fame
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Fame
I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.
Madonna · Fame
I had it all and blew it.
Mickey Mantle · Fame
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Marcus Valerius Martial · Fame
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Marcus Valerius Martial · Fame
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H. L. Mencken · Fame
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
John Milton · Fame

Authors on Fame

Alexander The Great W. H. Auden Francis Bacon Vicki Baum William Blake Edward De Bono Daniel J. Boorstin John Bright Edmund Burke Lord Byron Luis De Camoens Truman Capote Cato The Elder Nicolas Caussin Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort Gilbert K. Chesterton Chinese Proverb Marcus T. Cicero E. M. Cioran Claudius