Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.
~ Cleveland Amory
Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
~ Bible
I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
~ William Shakespeare
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
~ Lord Chesterfield
One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.
~ Nellie Melba
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
~ Sir George Savile
That sovereign of insufferables.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
~ George Steiner
Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.
~ William Hazlitt
When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
~ Voltaire
Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.
~ Henry Kissinger
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
~ William Mcfee
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
~ Antonio Porchia
After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
~ Cato The Elder
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
~ Benjamin Franklin
All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.
A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis celebrities live off each other.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.
~ Charles De Gaulle
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
~ Simeon Strunsky
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
~ William Osier
To be somebody you must last.
~ Ruth Gordon
The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.
~ John Churton Collins
Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.
~ Dean William R. Inge
Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.
~ Moritz Saphir
All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
~ Michel De Montaigne
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
~ H. L. Mencken
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.
~ Emily Dickinson
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
~ James Howell
Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.
~ Andy Warhol
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
