“I will praise any man that will praise me.”
William Shakespeare
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Famous Quotes
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Famous Quotes
Read 200 of the best famous quotes about fame, reputation, glory and being remembered, from Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Milton, Franklin and more.
“They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.”
William Shakespeare
FamePressure
“His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man!'”
William Shakespeare
TributeCharacter
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself.”
William Shakespeare
AmbitionDownfall
“The glass of fashion and the mould of form, the observed of all observers.”
William Shakespeare
CelebrityAdmiration
“For within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king keeps Death his court.”
William Shakespeare
PowerMortality
“I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers.”
William Shakespeare
Changed By FameRejection
“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”
Christopher Marlowe
BeautyLegend
“When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
GloryCourage
“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, the wretch, concentred all in self, living, shall forfeit fair renown, and, doubly dying, shall go down unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.”
Walter Scott
LegacySelfishness
“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
Mark Twain
BooksFunny
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
Oscar Wilde
GeniusLiving Fully
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”
Augustus
LegacyAchievement
“Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.”
Augustus
Last WordsLife As A Stage
“What an artist dies in me!”
Nero
Last WordsVanity
“Woe is me. Methinks I'm turning into a god.”
Vespasian
Last WordsFunny
“Mighty indeed are the marks and monuments of our empire which we have left.”
Thucydides
LegacyAchievement
“Posterity gives to every man his true honour.”
Tacitus
LegacyHistory
“Power said to the world, 'You are mine.' The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, 'I am thine.' The world gave it the freedom of her house.”
Rabindranath Tagore
PowerLove
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Augustine of Hippo
PrideHumility
“Great men's vices are accounted sacred.”
Thomas Fuller
CelebrityDouble Standards
“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me.”
Joseph Addison
EnvyMortality
“Every great man is unique.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
GreatnessOriginality
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”
G. K. Chesterton
HumilityLightness
“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
Aesop
AppearancesCharacter