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Fame and Celebrities QuotesFamous Fame and Celebrities quotes by popular authors such as Napoleon Bonaparte, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Daniel J. Boorstin, Voltaire, Cleveland Amory and others.
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[highlight-text]To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
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[highlight-text]That sovereign of insufferables.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia
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[highlight-text]Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky
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[highlight-text]All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
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[highlight-text]What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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[highlight-text]All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
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[highlight-text]He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
James Howell
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[highlight-text]One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.
Nellie Melba
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[highlight-text]Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.
Cleveland Amory
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[highlight-text]The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor
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[highlight-text]Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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[highlight-text]A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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[highlight-text]Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.
Charles de Gaulle
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[highlight-text]The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
Bible
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[highlight-text]After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
Cato the Elder
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[highlight-text]The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.
John Churton Collins
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[highlight-text]When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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[highlight-text]The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner
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[highlight-text]One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
William McFee
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[highlight-text]Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
Lord Chesterfield
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[highlight-text]Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
George Savile
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Sir William Osier
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[highlight-text]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 G. Saphir
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[highlight-text]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.
William Ralph Inge
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[highlight-text]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