Alexander Smith Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

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

  Alexander Smith

  Care, I Care, Fame

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

• Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

  Alexander Smith

  Coffins, Reputation, Melancholy

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.21

• Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

  Alexander Smith

  Phrases, Ears, Care

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

• I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Lightning, Deeds

  Alexander Smith (1853). “Poems”, p.201

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