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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence. Lord Acton
Fame is like a river which bears up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon
Public men are bees working in a glass hive; and curious spectators enjoy themselves in watching every secret movement, as if it were a study in natural history. Henry Ward Beecher
Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building the crowd breaks in, displacing his stones. Rainer Maria Rilke
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions. Pliny the Younger
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk and at the same time one doesn’t like to confront them with their own great themes. Max Beerbohm
All fame is dangerous; good brings envy; bad, shame. Thomas Fuller
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so. William Hazlitt
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him. Epicurus
Though later to become a renowned actress, the young Maureen O’Hara got her “big break” by gaining the admiration of established actor Charles Laughton. Shortly before shooting their first film together, Laughton decreed during the following conversation:
“Maureen, you’re going to be just marvelous in this picture... but your name is too long for the marquee, and we have to change it.”
“But I don’t want to change my name.”
“Well, I’m sorry, but you have to. You can either be Maureen O-Mara or Maureen O’Hara; which do you prefer?”
“Neither; I’m Maureen FitzSimons.”
“So you’re Maureen O’Hara.”
In her autobiography, she relates, and so I was, and so I am.
Source: Tis Herself: An Autobiography by Maureen O'Hara and John Nicoletti
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. Eric Hoffer
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen
The whole earth is a sepulcher of famous men. Thucydides
The nearest way to glory, a short cut as it were; is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. Socrates
Celebrity is the advantage of being known by those who don’t know you. Chamfort
Celebrity is a picture of myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere. Jean Cocteau
A man’s renown is like the hue of grass, which comes and goes. Dante
People that seem so glorious are all show. Underneath they are like anybody else. Euripides
If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age. Voltaire
High honors are sweet to a man’s heart, but ever they stand close to the brink of grief. Euripides
Glory comes from the unchanging din-din-din of one supreme gift. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who has not for the sake of his good reputation; sacrificed himself once? Nietzsche
Attempting to make dinner reservations at an upscale restaurant, actress Celia Imrie recounts the following interchanges: “Hello, could I please reserve a table for three for to-night?” The waiter laughed at me down the line, “You are joking,” he sneered. “You’ll get absolutely nothing here at this short notice.” I put the phone down, seething. About a quarter of an hour later I phoned again. I changed my voice ever so slightly and said, “Hello, its Celia Imrie here. Might you have a table for me, Allan Bates and Allan Bennet to-night?” “Certainly, Ms. Imrie we have a splendid table available.” It was the first time that I fully realized the positive power of fame. It gets you through doors, but how unfair! Source: The Happy Hoofer by Celia Imrie
When I hear a man applauded by the crowd I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed at is to live long enough. H. L. Mencken
Glory is that bright tragic thing that for an instance means domination and warms some poor name that never felt the sun, gently replacing in oblivion. Emily Dickinson
We are all clever enough at envying a clever man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead. Terrence Cummings
The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great. Montaigne
False is the praise which says that men’s eminence comes from their noble qualities; for the people of this world as a rule do not care about a man’s true nature. Clarence Pierre
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. Max Beerbohm
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody. Syrus
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rouges. Charles Caleb Colton
Thou shall confess the vain pursuit; of human glory yields no fruit, but an untimely grave. Thomas Carew
My slumber broken and my doublet torn; I find the laurel also bears a thorn. Walter Savage Landor
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. Montaigne
Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault. Gerald Morley
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self-outside themselves grow bright or dwindle in that mirror. Logan Pearsall Smith
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. Pascal
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. LA Rochefoucauld
