Fame

Famous quotes containing the word fame:

“Today one does not hear much about him.... The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Death makes no conquest of this conqueror,
For now he lives in fame though not in life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)