Fame

QUOTES

Always providing you have enough courage - or money - you can do without a reputation.
 Margaret Mitchell
 Gone with the Wind, 1936

We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.
 Voltaire
 Oeuvres, 1785

Martyrdom... the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
 G B Shaw
 Devil's Disciple, 1901

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
 JuliusCaesar
 -50

Celebrity is only a currency. Don't spend it on yourself.
 Bono Hewson
 

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
 Samuel Johnson
 1771

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.
 P J O'Rourke
 Give War a Chance, 1992

The deed is all, the glory nothing.
 Johann W Goethe
 Faust, 1832

In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
 Andy Warhol
 1968

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
 Cato
 -200

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
 Thomas Gray
 Elegy, 1751

What price glory?
 Maxwell Anderson
 1924

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