960 Quotes About Fame

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

Just let me knowwhen my fifteen minutes are up.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed by the whole of that fine profile; he is as wily as a cardinal. He has scented in Miss White a useful agent of celebrity, and he has come solely to harness her to the cause of his glory. It is himself that he courts by means of the salaams he offers to her; he only ever flirts with himself. He is the Narcissus of the inkpot...

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

I don’t want fame, money, or duty. I want to close my eyes and see your loving beauty.

Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind, Leaving on earth no more memorialThan foam in water or smoke upon the wind

Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious.

Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever.