Fame

Famous quotes containing the word fame:

“I see my reputation is at stake,
My fame is shrewdly gored.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Alas I find the Serpent old
That, twining in his speckled breast,
About the flow’rs disguis’d does fold,
With wreaths of Fame and Interest.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)