For a good man fame is always a problem.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Men have a solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.

There is no business in this world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

I think there's a danger in overexposure. Just think what happened to Lady Godiva-she became a chocolate.