278 quotes found
“I’m famous. Ain’t that a bitch?”
“Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.”
“Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.”
“I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.”
“Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.”
“Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.”
“When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.”
“Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.”
“One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.”
“After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.”
“Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.”
“The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.”
“Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.”
“Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.”
“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.”
“Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome.”
“In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.”
“Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.”
