Fame Quotes

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.