Quotations on Fame | Quotations: 19 | Pages: 2
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by Thomas Carlyle
(December 4, 1795 - February 4, 1881) |
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. |
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by Christian Nestell Bovee
(February 22, 1820 - 1904) |
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. |
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by William Hazlitt
(April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830) |
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. |
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by Oliver Wendell Holmes
(August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894) |
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. |
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by Thomas Carlyle
(December 4, 1795 - February 4, 1881) |
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man. |
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by Henry David Thoreau
(July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) |
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. |
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by Bible
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His fame was noised throughout all the country. |
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by Victor Hugo
(February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885) |
Popularity? It is glory's small change. |
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by Henry David Thoreau
(July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) |
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. |
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Authors with quotations on topic Fame:
Addison, Joseph (1)
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Bible (3)
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Bovee, Christian Nestell (1)
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Carlyle, Thomas (4)
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Corneille, Pierre (1)
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Disraeli, Benjamin (1)
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1)
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Hazlitt, William (1)
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1)
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Hugo, Victor (1)
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La Rochefoucauld, François VI. duc de (1)
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Pascal, Blaise (1)
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Thoreau, Henry David (2)
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