Quotes About Fame

it took seven years to make John a hero and just seven days to make him a failure.

crave some form of attention

In their aftermath, who got the recognition?

Croesus, King of Lydia, was considered the richest man of his time. To this day Romance languages use the expression "rich as Croesus" to describe a person of excessive wealth.

Look it. Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover?

It is easier for the rich to get richer, for the famous to become more famous.

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

It is a good lesson--though it may often be a hard one--for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all that he aims at.

As the life and good fame of yonder man were in your hands there seemed no choice to me, save to be silent in accordance with your behest. Yet it was not without heavy misgivings that I thus bound myself, for, having cast off all duty towards other human beings, there remained a duty towards him

Fortune may shine brightly on a woman like that, but the shadow cast is long and dark.

there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world.

The world has a talent for rewarding bad behavior with stardom

All he ever wanted was a comfortable chair and a place in history. Well, he was robbed of one and died in the other.

The world has a talent for rewarding bad behaviour with stardom

If I'm a shining star, let's hope I don't blow up.

You see, there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world.

You see, there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world. Goddard is of the second kind.

I believe that to be the world's greatest living writer there must be something terribly wrong with you. I don't even want to be the world's greatest dead writer. just being dead would be fair enough.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

I hope that I never become a vogue. A vogue is damned and doomed forever.

There is really nothing you can do easily: live or die or accept fame or money or defeat, it's all hard.

so you went with the famous and wrote about the famous, and, of course, what you found out is that the famous are worried about their fame—not the beautiful young girl in bed with them