Fame Quotes

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

Ezra Pound

It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.

John Lydon Rotten

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

Ben Hecht

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Alexander Pope

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Henry David Thoreau

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

Friedrich Nietzsche

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

Pliny the Elder

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

Raquel Welch

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus

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

Leszczynski Stanislaus

Fortune is no real thing.But men who cannot bear what comes to themIn Nature's way, give their own charactersThe name of Fortune.

Menander

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

I want to be famous everywhere.

Luciano Pavarotti

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Cecil Parkinson

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Andy Warhol

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Joseph Addison

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

Humphrey Bogart

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

W. Somerset Maugham