Fame Quotes - Page 23

• Love is not a feeling to pass away
  Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day.......
  Love is not a passion of earthly mould
  As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Summer, Passion

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.12259, Delphi Classics

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• Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Wealth, Honour

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...”, p.105

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• Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:
  Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• You, methinks you think you love me well;
  For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love
  Should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
  Not ever be too curious for a boon,
  Too prurient for a proof against the grain
  Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men,
  Being but ampler means to serve mankind,
  Should have small rest or pleasure in herself,
  But work as vassal to the larger love,
  That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Love You, Mean

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

  Cato the Elder

  Patience, Virtue, Patience Is A Virtue

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• The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Passion

  "The Cost of America's Secret Wars, Then and Now" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

  Philip Slater

  Politics, Our Society, Riches

  Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.142, Beacon Press

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• The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Kings, Truth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Power, Men

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• I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

  Joe Strummer

  Acting, Care, Illusion

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• There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Acting, Asking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Writing, Poetry, Temples

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• Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

  James M. Barrie

  Daughter, Mother, Honesty

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.392, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Beer, Safety

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

  William Feather

  Baseball, Acceptance, Men

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• What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humility, New Beginnings, Character

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• The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tell; for it is the result of proved honor, rectitude, and consistency-qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Exercise, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1884). “Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive”

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• The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

  William Blake

  Poison, Crowns, Laurels

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 97

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• The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

  Ovid

  Love, Giving, Glory

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• Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Humanity, Oblivion, Exception

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• Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson's life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors with something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Healing

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• There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Immortal, Written

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1471, Delphi Classics

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• Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series

  Aberjhani

  Art, African American, Series

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• It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Journey, Hiking, Sauntering

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• Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Deserve

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