| 60 Fame Quotes
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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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“If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.”
Oprah Winfrey Quotes |
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“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”
Lord Byron Quotes |
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“I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.”
Dorothy Parker Quotes |
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“Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal”
Don Williams, Jr Quotes |
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“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
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“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”
Horace Greeley Quotes |
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“Fame is the thirst of youth.”
Lord Byron Quotes |
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“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.”
Emily Dickinson Quotes |
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“A niche in the temple of Fame.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: origin is owed to establishment of Pantheon (1791) as a receptacle for distinguished men
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“Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain
To write in water's not to write in vain.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Art of Painting in Water Colours, in preface to Sir William Sanderson
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“Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of
obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be
sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: in "The Spectator", no. 255
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“And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius) Quotes Source: Med (4, 33)
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“Read but o'er the Stories
Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile
And you shall find that the desire of glory
Was the last frailty wise men put of;
Be they presidents.”
Jan van olden Barneveldt Quotes Source: reprinted by A.H. Bullen
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“Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!”
James Beattie Quotes Source: The Minstrel (st. 1)
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“Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal substance of his greatness,--
To which I leave him.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: The False One (act II, sc. 1, l. 169)
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“The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame,
Die fast away: only themselves die faster.
The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard,
Those bold insurancers of deathless fame,
Supply their little feeble aids in vain.”
Robert Blair Quotes Source: The Grave (l. 185)
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“Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost
lost that built it.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: from Moore's "Life of Bryon"
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“What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill
A certain portion of uncertain paper:
Some liken it to climbing up a hill,
Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:
For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,
And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"
To have, when the original is dust,
A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 218)
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“Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan (l. 68)
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“O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises,
'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,
Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover
She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa
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“Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a
probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essay--Goethe
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“Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately
at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Past and Present (ch. XVII)
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