celebrities

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

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

To be somebody you must last.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

That sovereign of insufferables.

The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis celebrities live off each other.

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.