Quotes about Celebrity, Fame and Fortune

Most popular fame quotes

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn quote.
None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. - Socrates quote.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

proverbs action

Fame is a magnifying glass.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. - Dante Alighieri quote.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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 quote.
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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon quote.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

glory

If a little learning is dangerous, a little fame can be devastating. - Maya Angelou quote.
If a little learning is dangerous, a little fame can be devastating.
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all. - Harry S. Truman quote.
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all.

human nature

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. - Erma Bombeck quote.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

success

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. - Baltasar Gracian quote.
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

ambition

You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason. - Gustave Flaubert quote.
To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

why I write

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. - Elbert Hubbard quote.
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
Fame is proof that people are gullible. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living. - Mark Twain quote.
Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. - John Lennon quote.
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.
My face is my passport.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger quote.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. - Robert Benchley quote.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

funny talent writing

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare quote.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. - Mel Brooks quote.
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
A man's great fame must always be measured against the means used to acquire it. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
A man's great fame must always be measured against the means used to acquire it.
I was the Toast of Two Continents: Greenland and Australia. - Dorothy Parker quote.
I was the Toast of Two Continents: Greenland and Australia.
In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes. - Andy Warhol quote.
In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
Ah just love bein' famous, and ah think anybody who says they don't is full of shit.
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.
A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. - Albert Einstein quote.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

authority

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence. - Robert A. Heinlein quote.
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
My God, who do they think I am - everybody? - Leonard Bernstein quote.
My God, who do they think I am - everybody?
FAME

Fame achieved
by mere achievement
scarce deserves the name.
Proper fame
is being famous
simply for your fame.
Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac. - Graham Greene quote.
Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

aphrodisiac

Fame does not tarnish as honor does when it is unmerited. - Mortimer Adler quote.
Fame does not tarnish as honor does when it is unmerited.
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. - Wystan Auden quote.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. - Francis Bacon quote.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame always brings loneliness.  Success is as ice cold and as lonely as the north pole.

success

Fame is failure disguised as money. - Brendan Francis quote.
Fame is failure disguised as money.
It's such a corrosive chemical: fame. - Candice Bergen quote.
It's such a corrosive chemical: fame.
Candice Bergen Goodbye Baby and Amen: A Saraband for the Sixties
Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty know how to look after themselves.  They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. - Sarah Bernhardt quote.
Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty know how to look after themselves.  They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth.
Famous, adj.  Conspicuously miserable. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Famous, adj.  Conspicuously miserable.
Don't confuse fame with success.  One is Madonna; the other is Helen Keller. - Erma Bombeck quote.
Don't confuse fame with success.  One is Madonna; the other is Helen Keller.
We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.
Fame is a boomerang.
That's what fame is: solitude. - Coco Chanel quote.
That's what fame is: solitude.

solitude

Novelists, playwrights, painters and others may hold in their heads the expectation of fame, but not poets.  Having chosen that road, all one can dream of is the jealousy of one's rivals. - Billy Collins quote.
Novelists, playwrights, painters and others may hold in their heads the expectation of fame, but not poets.  Having chosen that road, all one can dream of is the jealousy of one's rivals.

poets

Fame creates its own standard. - Sammy Davis, Jr. quote.
Fame creates its own standard.
Fame is a bee.
It has a song—
It has a sting—
Ah, too, it has a wing. - Emily Dickinson quote.
Fame is a bee.
It has a song—
It has a sting—
Ah, too, it has a wing.
Fame is a fickle food 
Upon a shifting plate.
Fame is a food that dead men eat,
I have no stomach for such meat.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. - William Hazlitt quote.
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. - Anne Lamott quote.
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
Anne Lamott Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Fame is bought by happiness. - Letitia Landon quote.
Fame is bought by happiness.
Fame separates you from life. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote.
Fame separates you from life.
At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes.  Then it blinds you.  Others can see you, but you cannot see them. - Charles Lindbergh quote.
At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes.  Then it blinds you.  Others can see you, but you cannot see them.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. - Michel de Montaigne quote.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make famous. - Joyce Carol Oates quote.
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make famous.
Fame!  It is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises. - Ouida quote.
Fame!  It is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. - George Santayana quote.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

vanity

So this was fame at last!  Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, in blood, in time. - May Sarton quote.
So this was fame at last!  Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, in blood, in time.
May Sarton Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.

wealth

Fame is like a smudge on your nose.  You can't see it.  Other people can.
Ben Shahn in The Christian Science Monitor
Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth. - Rabindranath Tagore quote.
Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.
One day you are a signature, next day, you are an autograph. - Billy Wilder quote.
One day you are a signature, next day, you are an autograph.
Billy Wilder Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder: A Personal Biography

success

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

fortune

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. - Benjamin Disraeli quote.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

power

There are two manners of receiving recognition: one is to be discovered so long after one's death that one's grandchildren have to write to the papers to establish the relationship; the other is to be discovered, like the infant Moses, at the very outset of one's career. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
There are two manners of receiving recognition: one is to be discovered so long after one's death that one's grandchildren have to write to the papers to establish the relationship; the other is to be discovered, like the infant Moses, at the very outset of one's career.
Once fame is necessary to our happiness, power to make us miserable lies in the hands of everyone.