Herman Melville Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort. This species of "fame" a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.

  Herman Melville

  Civilization, Order, Literature

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.492, Northwestern University Press

• Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

  Herman Melville

  Merit, Fame, Accidents

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.93

• To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.

  Herman Melville

  Past, Victory, Hull

  Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.166, Penguin

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