Fame

Famous quotes containing the word fame:

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

“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“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)