Fame Quotes

84 quotations about Fame
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
John Milton · Fame
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
Marilyn Monroe · Fame
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne · Fame
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Vladimir Nabokov · Fame
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
Ovid · Fame
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Cecil Parkinson · Fame
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal · Fame
I want to be famous everywhere.
Luciano Pavarotti · Fame
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
Brad Pitt · Fame
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Alexander Pope · Fame
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
Ezra Pound · Fame
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
Chinese Proverb · Fame
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
French Proverb · Fame
Fame is a constant effort
Jules Renard · Fame
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Antoine Rivarol · Fame
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean Jacques Rousseau · Fame
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
Marquis De Sade · Fame
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana · Fame
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer · Fame
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Arthur Schopenhauer · Fame
We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.
Thomas Sewell · Fame
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
William Shakespeare · Fame
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
William Shakespeare · Fame
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates · Fame
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus · 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