Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funeral, Attention, Littles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.219

• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Flower, Thinking, May

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Shining, Intellectual, Sun

• Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Light, Heaven, Growth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.365

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