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.
I call it popularity because I don't think fame in South Africa exists.
Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame.
And be shot at for sixpence a day.
Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.
People should love what they do and stop focusing on fame and being celebrities.
He stands for fame on his forefather's feet,
By heraldry, proved valiant or discreet!
Had doting Priam checked his son's desire,
Troy had been bright with fame and not with fire.