Quote: How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. Author: Alexander The Great 352-323 BC, Alexander III, Ancient Macedonian King
Quote: A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Author: Fred A. Allen 1894-1957, American Radio Comic
Quote: Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet
Quote: Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. Author: Vicki Baum 1888-1960, American Writer
Quote: Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. Author: Alan Bennett 1934-, British Playwright
Quote: The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role. Author: Edward De Bono 1933-, British Writer On Thinking Process
Quote: People should realize we're jerks just like them. Author: Edward De Bono 1933-, British Writer On Thinking Process
Quote: A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services. Author: Daniel J. Boorstin 1914-, American Historian
Quote: Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. Author: Daniel J. Boorstin 1914-, American Historian
Quote: Popular applause veers with the wind. Author: John Bright 1811-1889, Radical British Statesman, Orator
Quote: But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Author: Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher
Quote: There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. Author: Jean De La BruyFre 1645-1696, French Classical Writer
Quote: Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
Quote: Fame is the thirst of youth. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: I awoke one morning and found myself famous. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: To many fame comes too late. Author: Luis De Camoens 1524-1580, Portuguese Poet
Quote: Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town. Author: Truman Capote 1942-, American Author
Quote: Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. Author: George Washington Carver 1864-1943, American Scientist
Quote: After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. Author: Cato The Elder BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator
Quote: I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. Author: Cato The Elder BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator
Quote: It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. Author: Nicolas Caussin
Quote: If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us. Author: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright
Quote: Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. Author: Vicomte De Chateaubriand 1768-1848, French Politician, Writer
Quote: The present condition of fame is merely fashion. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
Quote: Acquaintance lessens fame. Author: Claudius 10 BC-AD 54, Roman Emperor
Quote: Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! Author: Davy Crockett 1786-1836, American Backwoodsman
Quote: Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. Author: Dante (Alighieri) 1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet
Quote: We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. Author: Bette Davis 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer
Quote: A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. Author: Miles Davis 1926-1991, American Jazz Musician
Quote: Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone. Author: Jules Ellinger
Quote: Fame is proof that the people are gullible. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Quote: I was the only one there I never heard of. Author: Barry J. Farber American Trainer, Speaker, Author
Quote: If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you. Author: Judy Garland 1922-1969, American Actress, Singer
Quote: If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. Author: Lillian Hellman 1905-1984, American Playwright
Quote: Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: How vain, without the merit, is the name. Author: Homer c. 850 -? BC, Greek Epic Poet
Quote: I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous. Author: Don Johnson 1949-, American Actor, Director, Producer, Singer
Quote: He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others. Author: (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet
Quote: Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame. Author: Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont 1846-1870, French Author, Poet
Quote: Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. Author: Doris Lessing 1919-, British Novelist
Quote: Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God. Author: Madonna 1958-, American Musician, Singer, Actress,
Quote: I had it all and blew it. Author: Mickey Mantle 1931-1995, American Baseball Player
Quote: May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. Author: Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro
Quote: I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. Author: Marcus Valerius Martial 40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist
Quote: If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it. Author: Marcus Valerius Martial 40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist
Quote: It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. Author: C. Wright Mills 1916-1962, American Sociologist
Quote: The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States. Author: C. Wright Mills 1916-1962, American Sociologist
Quote: Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. Author: Marilyn Monroe 1926-, American Actress
Quote: Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live. Author: Marilyn Monroe 1926-, American Actress
Quote: All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. Author: Van Morrison 1945-, British-born American Singer, Songwriter, Musician
Quote: It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. Author: Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977, Russian-born American Novelist, Poet
Quote: A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear. Author: Jack Nicholson 1937-, American Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Quote: The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. Author: Cecil Parkinson 1932-, British Conservative Politician
Quote: Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: I want to be famous everywhere. Author: Luciano Pavarotti 1935-, Italian Musician, Opera singer
Quote: Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true. Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Quote: Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen. Author: Brad Pitt 1963-, American Actor
Quote: True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. Author: Pliny The Elder c.23-79, Roman Neophatonist
Quote: What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! Author: Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Quote: Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: Fame is a constant effort Author: Jules Renard 1864-1910, French Author, Dramatist
Quote: Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. Author: Antoine Rivarol 1753-1801, French Journalist, Epigrammatist
Quote: Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.. Author: Jean Rostand 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer
Quote: To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver. Author: Philip Roth 1933-, American Novelist
Quote: Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect. Author: Marquis De Sade 1740-1814, French Author
Quote: The highest form of vanity is love of fame. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
Quote: Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots. Author: Thomas Sewell
Quote: Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to ''The March of the Women'' from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known. Author: Dame Ethel Smyth 1858-1944, British Composer, Feminist
Quote: Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist
Quote: Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. Author: Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza 1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian
Quote: What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Author: Leszczynski Stanislaus 1677-1766, Polish King
Quote: The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign. Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus 55-117 AD, Roman Historian
Quote: Even the best things are not equal to their fame. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen. Author: John Updike 1932-, American Novelist, Critic
Quote: The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. Author: Gloria Vanderbilt
Quote: Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them. Author: George Villiers 1628-1687, British Wit, Poet,, Statesman, Duke of Buckingham
Quote: Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: Fame hides her head among the clouds. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. Author: Andy Warhol 1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker
Quote: Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict. Author: Raquel Welch 1940-, American Actress
Quote: What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all! Author: John Wolcot
Quote: Sometimes I wish I weren't famous. Author: Tammy Wynette 1942-, American Musician, Singer