#fame

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. ↗

— Lord Byron

#being #care #fame #know #known

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ↗

— Lord Byron

#folly #loves #martyrdom

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. ↗

— Bennett Cerf

#crazy #fame #like #says #who

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? ↗

— Chanakya

#fame #good #man #needed #ornamentation

The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fame #fashion #merely #present

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#fame #italian #sleep

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user! ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#fame #ipad #oldest #user

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this. ↗

— Lily Collins

#fame #gaining #i #looking #never

I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fame #funny #funny

French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than God and traveled in his very own Pullman car, and Emmie Hubbard of the Uncas Road, who painted the most beautiful pictures when she was drunk and burned them in her woodstove when she was sober, were all ten times more interesting to me than Milton's devil or Austen's boy-crazy girls or that twitchy fool of Poe's who couldn't think of any place better to bury a body than under his own... floor. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#humor #life #beauty