Fame Quotes - page 2

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all . (Alexander Pope)
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. View quote
Edmund Burke
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped And they have kept it since by being dead. View quote
John Dryden
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. View quote
Willa Cather
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. View quote
Erica Jong
Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.' View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
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. View quote
Sun Tzu
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. View quote
Francis Bacon
I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now. (Jim Carrey)
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. View quote
Heraclitus
That's what fame is: solitude. View quote
Coco Chanel
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Give all to love Obey thy heart Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse, Nothing refuse. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. View quote
Euripides
Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner. View quote
Alessandro Del Piero
Fame is a vapor popularity an accident the only earthly certainty is oblivion. View quote
Mark Twain
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person. View quote
Andy Cohen
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. View quote
Annette Funicello
The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name. View quote
Jerry Rubin
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. View quote
Lionel Shriver