Fame Quotes - Page 9

I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.

To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

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

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy

Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.

I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.