Fame

Famous quotes containing the word fame:

“There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

“The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects, of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)