Quotes by Fame There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work. Helen Vendler poet fame When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame. Friedrich Nietzsche modesty gratitude fame You don't need the fame to be vital. Herbie Hancock meaning-of-life fame needs Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.' Hilaire Belloc physicians disease fame I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it. Henry Rollins making-money fame book I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Horatio Nelson welcome fame believe Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true. Henry David Thoreau late truth fame Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. Homer rich return fame I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin. Hugh Grant treated fame The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame. Homer vulgar fame But sure the eye of time beholds no name, Homer eye names fame The life, which others pay, let us bestow, Homer fame pay giving Short is my date, but deathless my renown. Homer renown deathless fame Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute. Herman Melville accidents merit fame Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame. Igor Stravinsky shame silence fame The real trap of fame is its irresistibility. Ingrid Bengis traps real fame To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier. Honore de Balzac desirable wells fame You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not. Isabel Allende storyteller legends fame Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. Henry David Thoreau praise fame Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull. Israel Zangwill bulls fame men «1112131415161718192021»