More Famous Sayings And Quotations On Fame

by allinspiration.com

“To many fame comes too late.”
– Camoens, Luis De

“Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.”
– Capote, Truman

“Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.”
– Carlyle, Thomas

“When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
– Carver, George Washington

“Being famous hasn’t changed my perception of myself – I’ve just grown up.”
– Cat Deeley

“I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.”
– Catherine Deneuve

“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
– Cato The Elder

“Lighter is the wound foreseen.”
– Cato The Elder

“Patience is the greatest of all virtues.”
– Cato The Elder

“Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.”
– Cato The Elder

“I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.”
– Cato The Elder

“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.”
– Cato The Elder

“It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.”
– Caussin, Nicolas

“If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.”
– Cervantes, Miguel De

“Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don’t know, and who don’t know us.”
– Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

“One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.”
– Charles Barkley

“Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.”
– Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”
– Chesterton, Gilbert K.

“Being famous before you’ve formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.”
– Chris Evert

“Yeah, I love being famous. It’s almost like being white, y’know?”
– Chris Rock

“I love being famous. It’s almost like being white.”
– Chris Rock

“True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.”
– Cicero, Marcus T.

“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”
– Cicero, Marcus T.

“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”
– Cioran, E. M.

“Acquaintance lessens fame.”
– Claudius

“I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn’t think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.”
– Clyde Tombaugh

“Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are 6buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.”
– Colton, Charles Caleb

“I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.”
– Confucius

“Being famous is just like being in high school. But I’m not interested in being the cheerleader. I’m not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She’s the cheerleader, and I’m out in the smoker shed.”
– Courtney Love

“Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!”
– Crockett, Davy

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