It was amazing how fast the shiny luster of fame could tarnish.
Fame Quotes
Pope leads, followed by Shakespeare, Homer, Edward Young and Virgil, which is about right for a topic that was a poet’s favourite for centuries. The sourced lines are short. Milton’s Lycidas (1637) says fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil; Byron’s Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816) says folly loves the martyrdom of fame; and Swift, in 1711, calls censure the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Flagged: a passage on living for something and leaving a monument of virtue, credited to Thomas Chalmers, is marked misattributed, and two Dryden passages, one about artists working for better fame and one about a poet’s chance of success, are disputed.
There is no money in writing, the only reward you get is fame.
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
A golden opportunity to show the world your talent. Fame, appreciation and love follows.
The brazen trump of iron-winged fame,
That mingleth faithful troth with forged lies.
Ah! what a dangerous gift is a great name!
How happier far a lot unknown to fame!
Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone:
A thousand critics shouting: "He's unknown!"
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call;
She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.
O dream of fame, what hast thou been to me
But the destroyer of life's calm content!
As to Mr. Lincoln’s name and fame and memory, — all is safe.
Make no mistake
She sheds her skin like a snake
On the dirty road to fame.
Lo, one who loved true honour more than fame,
A real goodness, not a studied name.
Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray The Fame wont take my life.