Home / Topics / Fame Quotes

Fame Quotes

Browse 3559 quotes about Fame.

Fame Quotes

“And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest.”

Thinking Doe Interest Rich Flower Kings Fame Glory Stores Breasts Deceiving Alas Folds Serpent Wreaths

Author:Andrew Marvell

“Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.”

Dies Next Sun Flower Fame Sun Rise

Book:Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

“Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.”

Knows Looks Joy Winning Know How Youth Flower Sorrow Taste Fame Twenties Praise Victim Caught Forty Gossip Caught Up Alas Concealed Advertisements Calumny Joys And Sorrows Whirlpools

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.”

Flower Fame Simplicity Valuable Innocence Crowns Laurels

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.”

Ifs Ends Dream Bigs Flower Fame Disease Surround Brilliance Sexually Surround Yourself Dressed Up Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Author:Peter Gabriel

“True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.”

Long Lasts Fall Flower Fame Glory Roots Spread Counterfeit Pretence

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.”

Thinking May Littles Flower Fame Praise Graves Buried

Author:Charles Caleb Colton