William Hazlitt Quotes about Fame

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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

William Hazlitt

Greatness, Popularity, Fame

William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.196

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

William Hazlitt

Dream, Fame, Poet

William Hazlitt, Edward George Earle Lytten Butwer-Lytton Lyton (1st baron), Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy”, p.293