Quotes about fame
81 quotes from 64 people
Andy Warhol1928–1987Catalogue of an exhibition of his art in Stockholm, Sweden (1968)
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Fame is a fickle food (B)Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
Cicero107–43 BCDe Officiis – On Duties (44 BC), Book II, section 43No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 106 (23 March 1751)The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Herons of Elmwood, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
John Milton1608–1674On Shakespeare (1630)Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CCCCXXIVCensure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
John Keats1795–1821Epitaph for himself (1821)
Lord Byron1788–1824Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 68.
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Book iii. Chap 2. Of Repentance
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust, Part 2 (1832), Act IV, A High Mountain Range
