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Not to know me argues yourself unknown.
What you are thunders so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
The fame of a great man ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.
I had not achieved a success; but I had provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
A friend recently said, “ Just imagine nor being famous what would happen? And all of a sudden I saw the face of a passer by on the street and the oddest feeling came over me.
Being a celebrity is like rape.
It’s either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
If fame will fall to me only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
A celebrity is one who is know to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
After a fellow gets famous it doesn’t take a long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him at school.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself known nothing, and for whom you care as little.
The way to fame is like the way to heaven, through much tribulation.
Fame, to the ambitious, is like salt water to the thirsty the more one gets, the more he wants.
Human life is too short to recompense the cares which attend the most private condition; therefore it is, that our souls are made, as it were, too big for it; and extend themselves in the prospect of a longer existence, in good fame, and memory of worthy actions ,after our decease.
Fame is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such, it is an accident, not a property of man.
That fame is the universal passion is by nothing more discovered than by epitaphs, the generality of mankind are not content to sink ingloriously into the grave, but wish to be paid that tribute after their deaths, which in many cases may not be due to the virtues of their lives.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them.
John Milton (1608-1674) English poet.
What you are thunders so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
The fame of a great man ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.
I had not achieved a success; but I had provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman (1907-1984) American playwright, author.
A friend recently said, “ Just imagine nor being famous what would happen? And all of a sudden I saw the face of a passer by on the street and the oddest feeling came over me.
Gloria Swanson (1897-1983) American actress.
Being a celebrity is like rape.
John McEnroe (b.1959) American tennis player.
It’s either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.
Bob Geldof (b.1954) Irish rock musician.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) Roman Statesman.
If fame will fall to me only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873) English novelist, playwright.
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
A celebrity is one who is know to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist.
After a fellow gets famous it doesn’t take a long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him at school.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself known nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Stanislaus.
The way to fame is like the way to heaven, through much tribulation.
Sterne.
Fame, to the ambitious, is like salt water to the thirsty the more one gets, the more he wants.
Ebers.
Human life is too short to recompense the cares which attend the most private condition; therefore it is, that our souls are made, as it were, too big for it; and extend themselves in the prospect of a longer existence, in good fame, and memory of worthy actions ,after our decease.
Steele.
Fame is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such, it is an accident, not a property of man.
Carlyle.
That fame is the universal passion is by nothing more discovered than by epitaphs, the generality of mankind are not content to sink ingloriously into the grave, but wish to be paid that tribute after their deaths, which in many cases may not be due to the virtues of their lives.
Kett.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
Mallet.
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them.
Colton.
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