Fame Quotes

Many have wanted to be famous, some even died trying to attain fame, but only a few have become famous. Read the quotes below to know what some of the famous people have said about the fame.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Gloria Vanderbilt

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.
Bill Maher

Fame is the thirst of youth.
Lord Byron

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fame is only good for one thing – they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Doris Lessing

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
Tacitus

I think it’s easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
Sophia Bush

I feel like fame is wasted on me.
Ben Affleck

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Emile M. Cioran

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Desiderius Erasmus

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Jean Cocteau

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
Clive James

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
Matthew Simpson

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.
Michael Hutchence

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Gloria Swanson

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you’ve never seen before, and they’re at a great advantage.
Scott Hamilton

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace

People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.
Sherry Stringfield

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Michel de Montaigne

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
Marlo Thomas

I always thought I should be treated like a star.
Madonna

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Henry David Thoreau