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.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.
A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.
Go where glory waits thee,
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me!
That's fame: just a cigar with the hot end and ash in your mouth.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.