“Fame itself … doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.”
– David Bowie

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”
Johnny Depp

“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.”
– Ricky Gervais

“Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.”
– Eminem

“If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“I think I understand what military fame is – to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman

“Fame was thrilling only until it became gruelling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.”
– Gloria Swanson

“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”
– Lord Byron

“A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.”
– Clive James

“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”
– Dante Alighieri

Thoughts on fame

Lunchtime offer at revamped Summer Lodge

SUMMER Lodge, the luxurious country house hotel at Evershot, is closed until 25th January for major renovations in the restaurant, spa and kitchen. It is the first time for many years that the hotel, part of the Red Carnation group and a member of the prestigious Relais & Chateaux, has been closed.

When it reopens on 26th January there will be a special lunchtime promotion, for a three-course meal, plus glass of fizz on arrival, for £19.50. There will be two choices for each course, prepared from locally sourced seasonal produce.

Summer Lodge, under executive chef Steve Titman, has an unrivalled reputation for the quality, style and presentation of food, sourced from the finest regional produce, and a wine list that would excite the most knowledgeable wine buff.

Awards over the past few years include three times being Taste of Dorset Restaurant of the Year, the Best British Cheese Board at the British Cheese Society Awards in 2012, Most Prestigious Country House Hotel in 2013 and fourth in Conde Nast’s Readers’ Choice Awards for the top 25 hotels in Europe in 2014.