Fame Quotes

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Benjamin Franklin

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

Sir Thomas Browne

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Tammy Wynette

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

Source Unknown

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander the Great

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

Aldous Huxley, Miss Thriplow, in

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

Orson Scott Card

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

Johnny Cash

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

E. M. Cioran

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Jules Ellinger

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

G. K. Chesterton

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Thomas Sewell

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mickey Mantle

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Brad Pitt

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

John Keats

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Dame Ethel Smyth