Best fame & interest Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.”

Interest Fame Sells Public Interest

Author:Solon

“As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.”

May Said States Certain Values Interest Genius Fame Letters Raises Leaving Improvement Stealing Impression Sentiments Heirs Monarchs Commonwealth Plagiarism Prerogative

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne

“There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.”

Men May Sometimes Interest Pleasure Honest Honesty Fame Protect Highest Safety Casts Profit Obligation Cards Temptation Being Honest Ease Horns Altars

Author:Owen Feltham

“I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.”

Self Interest Fame

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.”

Feelings Literature Interest Walks Fame Intellect Egotism Covering Distortion Stripping

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame”

Desire Interest My Own Pleasure Fame Ambition Affair Envy Jealousy Engaged Avarice Public Affairs

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.”

Wanted Interest Fame British Nonsense Sentimental Hopkins Hogwash

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.”

Interest Fame Good Things

Author:Annie Lennox

“The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.”

Years Age Interest Wealth Common Special Fame Gains Greed Obligation Selfishness Neglect Excess Exalted Common Good Special Interests Irresponsibility Gilded Gilded Age

Author:William J. Clinton

“I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do.”

Knows Interest Race Records Generations Fans New York Fame Projects Musician Jazz Who I Am Hips Rats Participating Rat Race

Author:Paul Smoker

“If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Mean Interest Attention Fame Capitalism Goods Patriarchy Deconstruction

Author:Eve Ensler

“The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.”

People Interest Effects Fame Topics

Author:Christine Sneed

“All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.”

Men Self Interest Pleasure Fame Self Interest

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“I do seem to work in a lot of different mediums, which means it keeps things fresh and sparks interest in me. Fame and fortune is fairly irrelevant to me. It's nice because it gives creative freedom. But just wanting to be famous is ridiculous because it's so vacuous. So, I get offered lots of different things and if they spark my interest, I'll try and do them because they form part of a wider creative circle.”

Giving Trying Mean Different Interest Creative Nice Fame Ridiculous Irrelevant

Author:David Essex

“We started out with a lot of bands in the same generation as ours, and there are very few left. Mainly, I think people get into it for the wrong reasons. They either want fame or the girls. I think music has to be a fun experience, but it also needs to be in your blood. I firmly believe I was born to write beautiful music, and that's what I do, and that's why I don't do anything else, because I have no interest and no passion for it.”

People Thinking Writing Believe Reason Beautiful Girl Passion Fun Interest Fame

Author:Sune Rose Wagner

“It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.”

Facts Seems Interest Challenges Wealth Greater Fame Achievement Concern Direct Pursuit Ruins Folly Ruined Reminders Fragility Bustle Puncture Pursuit Of Wealth

Book:The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.”

Faces Interest Fame Blind Cease Extras Mask Performers Deaf Animation Input

Book:Self-consciousness: memoirs

Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs

“The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.”

Knows Self Interest Fame Conscience Difficulty Self Interest

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)

“The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is to protect the people and promote the best interests of his sovereign, is the precious jewel of the state.”

People Doe Art War States Purpose Interest Fame Protect Concerned Punishment Sovereign Avoiding Jewels Art Of War Advancing Withdrawing Precious Jewels

Author:Sun Tzu

“This position will not be disputed so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct, or that the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty. Even the love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds... would on the contrary deter him from the undertaking, when he foresaw that he must quit the scene before he could accomplish the work.”

“When this is over, the media will lose interest [in the relationship]. There’ll be nothing to say. It won’t fit into a headline anymore. It won’t fit into a template.”

Interest Loses Media Fit Fame Headlines

Author:Robert Pattinson

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