Lose thou no time that seek’st to garner fame,
Or wouldst deserve the favour of thy dame.
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.
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
They say Fame is nothing but Grace is everything and I pray for grace in everything I do.
Fame has its price and if managed properly, there is no door it cannot open for one.
Too famous, for his life was pure,
And man can ill another's fame endure.
Fame is horrible, very confusing, it's an illusion - it doesn't exist.
For the fame of riches and beauty is fickle and frail, while virtue is eternally excellent.