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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

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Ouida
English - Novelist
January 1, 1839 - January 25, 1908

I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.

Troy Baker

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

Louisa May Alcott

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Don Henley

renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

Ambrose Bierce

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Lana Turner

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Aesop

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Neil Gaiman

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

Morgan Brittany

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

Harry S. Truman

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

James Wolcott

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

Don Henley

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Ariel Rechtshaid

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

George William Curtis

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.

Sherman Glenn Finesilver

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

James Russell Lowell

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