They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never healö The deep, unutterable woe

-Aytoun,William Edmonstoune

Death†openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.11,'Of Great Place'.

Physicians of the utmost fame Were called at once, but when they came Theyanswered, as they took their fees, 'There is no cure for this disease.'

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Henry King'.

Myclaimtoliterary fameisthat Iusedto deliver meattoa woman who becameT. S. Eliot's mother-in-law.

-Bennett, Alan
  In the Observer, 26  Apr. The lady in question was the mother of Eliot's wife Valerie Fletcher; Bennett's father was the butcher in the sameYorkshire village.

A lone letter from a young man: that is fame.

-Berryman,John originally John Allyn Smith
  'Dream Song No.342'.

Fareweel to a'our Scottish fame, Fareweel our ancient glory.

-Burns, Robert
  'Such a parcel of rogues in a nation', stanza1.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that art is long. Success is in the silences, Though fame is in the song.

-Carman, (William) Bliss
  Ballads and Lyrics,'Envoi'. These lines are reproduced on the plaque erected in his honour at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame, And be shot at for sixpence a day.

-Diaz, Porfirio
  'Charity'.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

-Dobson, (Henry) Austin
  'Fame is a Fool'.

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

-Donne,John
  'An  Anatomy of the World: The First  Anniversary'.

   Upon Saint Crispin's day Fought was this noble fray, Which fame did not delay To England to carry; Oh, when shall English men With such acts fill a pen, Or England breed again Such a King Harry?

-Drayton, Michael
  Of the Battle of  Agincourt. Poems Lyrick and Pastorall,'To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, His Ballad of  Agincourt'.

Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram: Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in Acrostic Land. There thou mayest wings displayand altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.

-Dryden,John
  MacFlecknoe (published1682), l.203^8.

Fame is based on what people sayabout you, reputation on what they think of you.

-Dudek, Louis
Collected in Notebooks1960^1994 (1994).

Here lies, bowl'd out by Death's unerring ball, A cricketer renowned, by name John Small; But though his name was small, yet great was his fame, For nobly did he play the'noble game'. His life was like his inningsölong and good; Full ninety summers had Death withstood, At length the ninetieth winter cameöwhen (Fate Not leaving him one solitary mate) This last of Hambledonians, old John Small, Gave up his bat and ballöhis leather, wax and all.

-Egan, Pierce
  Epitaph on cricketer  John Small. Pierce Egan's Book of Sports.

Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  In the Radio Times,10 Sep.

Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone,'Song', act 3, sc.7.

When I behold, upon the night's starred face Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;öthen on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness so sink.

-Keats,John
  'When I Have FearsThat I May Cease to Be'.

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw theThing ashesees It for the God of Things as They are!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'When Earth's Last Picture is Painted'.

   Hail Cricket! glorious, manly, British game! First of all Sports! be first alike in fame!

-Love,James pseudonym of  James Dance
  'Cricket:  An Heroic Poem'.