Best 1177 quotes in «fame quotes» category

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day

The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.

This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the longer you will live to enjoy the priceless fame of conquerors.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

To many fame comes too late.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

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

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith.