Quotes About Renown

I never knew you could be so known from your success.

There are legends. You used to be one." She says coolly, "I am legend.

Without taking any action himself, he had become more than a legend.

To enter a breach, conduct an embassy, govern a people, are actions of renown; to reprehend, laugh, sell, pay, love, hate, and gently and justly converse with a man's own family and with himself; not to relax, not to give a man's self the lie, is more rare and hard, and less remarkable.

They needn't have worried. Three hundred men, it turned out, were not enough to massacre a man like Bussy.* The assassination attempt had not only failed, it backfired completely by adding to the warrior's renown.

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

Are you famous in India?" Allyson asks. "I am Brad Pitt in India" Willem says.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Walk in the power of the Truth that the name of the Lord God may be glorified among you, his renown may be seen in you and among you, and all the world may be astonished.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Well, it made you famous.

Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.

or maybe people just like to overpraise a famous name.

Renown is a source of toil and sorrow; obscurity is a source of happiness.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

When it came to being a legend, all it took was one person to recognize that you were epic. That was it.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

I had to let her know that the reason she'd never heard of me was because I was famous.

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

I don't like the idea of famous people.