Fame Quotes - Page 12

• Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Mean, Idols

  "Erica Jong talks sex at 73". Interview With Danielle Berrin, jewishjournal.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

  William Shakespeare

  Haste

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• 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

  Ezra Pound

  Hunting, White, World

  Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

  Charles Sumner

  Mankind, Labor, Permanent

  Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.332

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• Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

  John Milton

  Mind, Noble, Delight

  "Lycidas" l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refers to "the desire of glory (That last infirmity of noble minds)." That play was lost and not rediscovered until 1883, so Milton's parallel words were coincidental.

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• Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Years, Two, Hundred

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.132

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• The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wind, Long, Earth

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatoria, Song XI, 100, 1321.

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• Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride, Names, Looks

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

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• Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Sports, Confused, Real

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Different, Taste, Different Tastes

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• Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

  Joseph Addison

  Strong, Men, Desire

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.317

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• Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Proud, Vain

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• I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Names, Giving

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• I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

  Lord Byron

  Morning, Found

  Quoted in Thomas Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830). Byron wrote this in his Memoranda after the first two cantos of his poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage were published in 1812 and became sensationally popular.

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• If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

  Martial

  After Death, Ifs

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.225

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• He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

  Zhuangzi

  Self, Risk, Losing

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• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Success, Congratulations, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Hyperion”, p.66

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• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, May, Tests

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.75

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• I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

  David Bowie

  Graduation, Travel, Promise

  "Mourning David Bowie, Dead at 69" by Nicole Silverberg, www.gq.com. January 11, 2016.

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• The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

  Marquis de Sade

  Stars, Majority, Idiot

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• We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

  Lord Byron

  Idols, People, Literature

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Change, Sympathy

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 7 (1838)

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• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Loneliness

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