Best fame & fickle Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.”

Jobs Acting Fame Fickle Rest Of Life Sure Thing

“Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.”

Men Past Dies Food Fame Tables Cooking Culinary Farmers Ironic Guests Plates Shifting Corn Crow Fickle Crumbs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.”

Justice Struggle Fame Impulse Ambitious Goddess Flirting Fickle

Book:Life of Col. David Crockett

Source: Life of Col. David Crockett

“Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.”

Causes Fame Fortune Shy Plunge Bolts Fickle Trifling Jade

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.”

Ends Fame Faithful Obscurity Fickle

Author:Mason Cooley

“Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.”

Ifs Turns Fate Media Fame Library More Time Fickle

Author:Mary Beard

“This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.”

Stills Values Fame Fickle

Author:George Michael

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

Knows Inspiring Fame Compensation Fickle Drawbacks

Author:Marilyn Monroe