Fame Quotes - Page 7

• The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Men, Lust

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• After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Vanity, Everlasting

  "The meditations of Marcus Aurelius". Book by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jeremy Collier, archive.org. 1887.

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• Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love.

  Drake

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

  Don McLean

  Funny, Music, Song

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• The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

  Nelson Mandela

  Worry, Vices, Ordinary

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• Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.

  Jacques Kallis

  Sports, Country, India

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• I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

  Peter Lik

  Success, Photography, Awards

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• Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

  Don Johnson

  Infamous, Left

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• Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

  Joaquin Miller

  Soul, Fever, Immortality

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.118

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• Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Gullible, Proof

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• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

  John Updike

  Input, Faces, Blind

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.252, Random House

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• Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

  Emily Dickinson

  Song, Idols, Wings

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.635, Harvard University Press

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• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Money

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.125, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Dust, Names

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• It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Hurt, People, Giving

  Quoted in Ms., Aug. 1972

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• Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Deathbed

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• 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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• Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

  Homer

  Renown, Deathless

  Homer (1769). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.329

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• It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."
  [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Men, He Man, Fingers

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• The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

  Charles Sumner

  War, Greatness, Men

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• I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

  David Bowie

  Music, Stars, Water

  "'I'm an Instant Star': The Definitive List of David Bowie's Best Quotes". nationalpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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• A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

  Lord Byron

  Freedom, Cynical, Dignity

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• Fame is the thirst of youth.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Youth, Thirst

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.63, Routledge

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• Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

  Emily Dickinson

  Idols, Cooking, Fickle

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

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