fame

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

I think, because_well, I like the idea of coming up with a story that never existed before, but I don__ really want to be in charge. I don__ want to be famous. I guess I like the idea of sitting in the dark and knowing that I created the thing on screen, that it__ my story, but, like, no-one else has to know it was me. Does that make sense?

Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.

No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

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.

Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.