Notoriety Quotes

“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.”
― Daphne du Maurier, The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories

“She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.”
― E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term”
― Emily Thorne

“There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.”
― Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“The problem with a small town is that when you don't buy into the powers that be there are very few other choices. It's like a play where there is only a "virtuous" lead, a villain, and bit players. Better to be the villain because you're not duped into believing you're in more than a play, and at least your name goes on the program.”
― Catherine Gildiner, Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir

“…notoriety is not real glory.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys

“But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

“Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Sometimes people identified too strongly with the famous—it was one of the prices of notoriety, especially when so many considered you to be a hero. Batman sometimes filled much too large a hole in people’s lives.”
― Craig Shaw Gardner, The Batman Murders

“Remain humble and you will be recognized for that. Sometimes being graceful is just as attractive as notoriety, for the goodness you create.”
― Ron Baratono

“It is even more unpleasant to hate someone who does not even know that you exist.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Imagine a piece of spaghetti that looks edible but that never ends once you start sucking it in—that’s fame in a nutshell.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety; TV confuses people.”
― Chuck Klosterman

“That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.”
― Dave Holmes

“Once you’ve accomplished things that exceed your wildest dreams. People can get weird. Maybe you’ve bought a new house? Maybe you finally landed that big acting role? Some people don’t see, or care to see first-hand, the hard work you’ve invested and the years you’ve strive to achieve your goals. All they can see is the notoriety you’re receiving. They can be complete strangers, or a person you know, but yet they judge unkindly, or look for an unkind defect. Their jealously is fear, so they’ll try to pick you apart. You’re the same person but their satisfaction is thinking they’ve brought you back to their level.,”
― Ron Baratono

“To recover his citizen’s rights and acquire still more new, exclusive prerogatives that would render to Laurence’s authority soul and body not just the wennies, but also the entire country, he lacked just one thing—a word. … This is the marvelous word: bandit.”
― Iliazd, Rapture: A Novel

“It's so vengeful, so middle school, the way they want to boil my entire life down into these two dead girls.”
― Carolyn Kepnes

“He always had a wild desire for notoriety... always had a craze to be mixed up with any scandal or catastrophe he heard of. Why, that man didn't like funerals because he couldn't pretend to be the corpse.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat