Fame Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) English novelist, playwright
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist
After a fellow gets famous it doesn’t take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him at school.
Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930) American humorist, journalist
Not to know me argues yourself unknown.
John Milton (1608-1674) English Poet
What you are thunders so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
The fame of a great man ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist
I had not achieved a success; but I had provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman (1907-1984) American playwright, author
A friend recently said, “Just imagine not being famous — what would happen?” And all of a sudden I saw the face of a passer-by on the street and the oddest feeling came over me.
Gloria Swanson (1897-1983) American actress
Being a celebrity is like rape.
John McEnroe (b. 1959) American tennis player
It’s either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.
Bob Geldof (b. 1954) Irish rock musician
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) Roman statesman
If fame will fall to me only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
