Quotes about Fame
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a signal convenience is fame. Do we read all authors to grope our way to the best? No, but the world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
His [the author's] renown… has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.
- Washington Irving
I hate red-carpet photographs!
- Kirsten Dunst
Because of who I am, people ask for photos. I can't just say no to everyone.
- Mo Farah
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
- Bill Gates
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.
- Michael Douglas
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
- Laurence Sterne
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
- Cicero
No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.
- Nelson Rockefeller
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
- Virginia Woolf