Best fame & merit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.”

People Thinking Attention Figures Fame Hardest Merit Girlfriend Spotlight Hardest Times

Author:Rosamund Pike

“The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.”

People Men Eye Common Wonder Judging Honor Fame Deserve Slave Ill Titles Merit Popularity

Author:Horace

“Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.”

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

“To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.”

Men Has Beens Dies Courses Levels Common Break Fate Dying Objects He Man Fame Glory Hatred Raised Sake Envy Noble Pursue Merit Lasting Usual Submit Strain Posterity Splendor Aversion

Author:Thucydides

“Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.”

Fame Absolutes Accidents Merit

Book:Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

“How vain, without the merit, is the name.”

Literature Names Fame Vanity Vain Merit

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .”

Clear Fame Connected Merit

Author:Errol Morris

“It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.”

People Literature Names Fame Lows Radio Merit Regions Reporters Glamorous Being Famous Glamorous Life

Author:Kate Adie

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”

Inspirational Motivational Time Lost Fame Entrepreneur Reputation Merit Idle Businessman Deserving Imposition Image And Reputation Literary Merit

Author:William Shakespeare

“Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.”

Fame Tests Merit

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.”

Men Memories Deals Fame Merit Distinction Oblivion Iniquity Poppies

Author:Thomas Browne

“Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.”

Men May Fame Tests Property Accidents Merit Probability

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

“He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.”

Fear Violence Wind Fame Claims Storm Pursue Merit Endeavor Vessel Fear Not Leaks

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.”

Heart Fame Gains Reputation Secure Merit

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Fame Quotes

Related topics

Fame Quotes