Fame Quotes

• With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

  Albert Einstein

  Stupid, Memorable, Ironic

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

  Horace Greeley

  Wisdom, Character, Wings

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• The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

  Amelia Earhart

  Strong Women, Jobs, Winning

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• I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sunset, Dark, Obscurity

  1925 Those Barren Leaves, pt.1, ch.1.

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• 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.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Misery, Hunger

  Pablo Picasso, David Douglas Duncan (1961). “Picasso's Picassos”

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• All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ephemeral, Reputation, Dignity

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (35), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

  William Shakespeare

  Causes, Reputation, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.104

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• Fame is nothing but an empty name.

  Charles Churchill

  Names, Paganism, Empty

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1804). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.24

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• I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

  Salma Hayek

  Stars, People, Littles

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• It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

  Alan Alda

  Funny, Happiness, Money

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• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Fire, May, Kindles

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.627

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• What is Fortune, what is Fame?
  Futile gold and phantom name-
  Riches buried in a cave,
  Glory written on a grave.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Names, Gold, Caves

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Food, Men, Cooking

  'Fame is a Food' (1906)

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• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

  Erma Bombeck

  Success, Determination, Greatness

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• Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

  Billy Connolly

  Comedy, Euthanasia, Cigarette

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• I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.

  Julia Roberts

  Thinking, Cost, Moments

  "Canoodling With Julia". www.vanityfair.com. February 28, 1999.

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• Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  People, Literature, Advantage

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• 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.

  C. Wright Mills

  Stars, Men, White

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• 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

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• 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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• You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

  Dave Kellett

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• Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

  Vanna Bonta

  Attitude, Goal, Messengers

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1989.

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• Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
  Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin;
  Most unsubstantial, unessential shade
  Was earthly fame.

  Robert Pollok

  Fleeting, Shade, Phantoms

  Robert Pollok (1829). “The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books”, p.81

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• Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hands, Play, Perfect

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.193

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• As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Obscurity, Shells, Pearls

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.55

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