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

Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!

I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.