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| Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion | | Mark Twain | |
| Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both. | | Marilyn Monroe | |
| Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
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| Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. | | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds | | Socrates | |
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| I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. | | Dorothy Parker | |
| It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. | | Albert Einstein | |
| It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing. | | Marilyn Monroe | |
| O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her. | | Lord Byron | |
