Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.