Quotes About Fame

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying the barley crop and also with ignoring the court order to appear and defend themselves. Bartholomé Chassenée argued successfully that the rats hadn't come because the court had failed to provide reasonable protection from the village cats along the route.

Nina Torrone, a young artist whose work had caught fire and was selling for over half a million per painting.

Buy'ce gal, buy'ce tal Vebor'ad ures alit Mhi draar baat'i meg'parjii'se Kote lo'shebs'ul narit A pint of ale, a pint of blood Buys men without a name We never care who wins the war So you can keep your fame —Popular drinking chant of Mandalorian mercenaries—approximate translation, edited for strong language

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. Gone, she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. Just like that. All that exercise for nothing. Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion.

Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians would have recognized it. People just watched a lot more TV and found celebrities interesting, that was all that was different.

Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.