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.
You can’t make love to your fame. Even though some people try.
"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.
I shall speak as well as I can for usefulness, but not for fame.
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
How much does the fame of human actions depend upon the station of those who perform them!
The truly enlightened man has no learning, no virtue, no accomplishments, no fame.