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He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige.

Virginia Woolf

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

Julie Burchill

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Henry David Thoreau

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Erma Bombeck

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Robert Burns

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Oliver Goldsmith

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Walter Savage Landor

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other

Erma Louise Bombeck

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.

Emily Dickinson

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

Tacitus

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

George Santayana

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Vicki Baum

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.

Vanna Bonta

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.

Marilyn Monroe

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

William de Morgan

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