| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Cowley | What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? |
| Alan Alda | It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. |
| Blaise Pascal | The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. |
| Charles Churchill | Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame. |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. |
| Colley Cibber | The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it. |
| Dante Alighieri | The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. |
| Dante Alighieri | All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. |
| Emily Dickinson | Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. |
| Fred Allen | A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised. |
| George Santayana | The highest form of vanity is love of fame. |
| Gilbert K Chesterton | The present condition of fame is merely fashion. |
| Gloria Vanderbilt | The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. |
| H L Mencken | Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Even the best things are not equal to their fame. |
| Henry Louis Mencken | A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. |
| Horace Greeley | Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. |
| James Beattie | Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! |
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