Famous quotes containing the word fame:
“Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,
Fair Science frownd not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy markd him for her own.”
—Thomas Gray (17161771)
“O my countrymen!be nice;Mbe cautious of your language;and never, O! never let it be forgotten upon what small particles your eloquence and your fame depend.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Stupid misery of fame and money. Always we were safe from it, mistaking our obscurity for a curse when it was a treasure. Free to make what we liked, to be ourselves, even do nothing at all. No one watching. We could be real.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
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