Best 1177 quotes in «fame quotes» category

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

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!

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.

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

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

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

When Chrissie Hynde was inducted into the Hall of Fame, I, of course, was there to see that because I have to back up the girl. When it was over, I said we needed to have a party for Chrissie in my hotel suite. I didn't really know her, but it was great.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

When Grease and Fame came out, people thought they were cheesy.

When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

When this is over, the media will lose interest [in the relationship]. There’ll be nothing to say. It won’t fit into a headline anymore. It won’t fit into a template.

When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

When you finally end something like Superman and then find yourself world-famous, it's pretty weird, lemme tell ya. Fame is weird, is what it really is. It's the weirdest thing in the world.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

Whoever has recognized the vainglory of individuality will not attach any store ("n'attachera aucun prix à", Fr.) to fame. The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.