Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Fame

• NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Leadership, Kindness, Angel

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

• OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Struggle, Wicked, Oblivion

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

• Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Miserable, Fame

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Would Be, Too Much, Fame

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

• renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hands, Littles, Degrees

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.181, 谷月社

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