Quotes / Famed In-Story

Fan Works

“Come on, she’s definitely a monster hunter or something.”
“Monsters? Come on, there’s no such thing. I haven’t seen a monster my whole life.”
“Well, I guess she’s freaking GOOD then, huh?! And yes, you have seen a monster before since WE ALL SAW THAT LION!”
“Lions aren’t monsters, Dan. Be rational.”
“Oh yeah, the lion wasn’t a monster. Sure. And I’m sure the fact it was pink and it has a Bag of Holding in its skull is just, you know, normal lion behavior.”

— The Connie Maheswaran Fanclub, a Steven Universe fanfic

Literature

Gandalf! If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale. Tales and adventures sprouted up all over the place wherever he went, in the most extraordinary fashion.

— The Hobbit

Live Action TV

The Doctor: "I'm The Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up."

(after a short moment, the Vashta Nerada retreats)

— Doctor Who: "Forest of the Dead"

Hans: My name is Hans Hunter. I'm sure you've heard of him.

Max: Yes. Murderer, thief and traitor!

Hans: People will gossip.

— Get Smart, "Island of the Darned"

Bashir: And while we're on the subject [of staying safe], Constable. I'm sure there's more than one Klingon who thinks that slaying a changeling would be worthy of a song or two.
Odo: Doctor, if a Klingon were to kill me, I'd expect nothing less than an entire opera on the subject.
Bashir: Maybe. I just don't want to have to listen to it.

— Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "The Way of the Warrior"

Poems

Montgomery! true, the common lot
Of mortals lies in Lethe's wave;
Yet some shall never be forgot,
Some shall exist beyond the grave.

"Unknown the region of his birth,"
The hero rolls the tide of war;
Yet not unknown his martial worth,
Which glares a meteor from afar.

His joy or grief, his weal or woe,
Perchance may 'scape the page of fame;
Yet nations, now unborn, will know
The record of his deathless name.

— George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Answer To A Beautiful Poem, Written By Montgomery"

"Hail! generous youth, whom glory's sacred flame
Inspires, and animates to deeds of fame;"

— George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Epistle to a Young Nobleman in Love"

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

— Emily Dickinson, "Fame is a Bee"

Men of Harlech, on to glory
See your banner famed in story
Waves these burning words before ye,
"Britain scorns to yield!"

— "Men of Harlech"

Tabletop Games

He is legend even among the Fiends, and few have seen him or spoken with him. Along with Lugoj, Voivode of Voivodes, it was he who freed the childer from their elders' sanguinary shackles. His mastery of blood sorcery is rivaled only by the Inner Council of the Tremere. Sabbat younglings dub him "the Flayer," "the Vivisectionist" and a host of other sobriquets, but elders among the Sabbat Fiends know him simply as Velya.

— Vampire: The Masquerade - Children Of The Night

More tales are told Golgfag than any other Ogre alive, and Golgfag himself spins a great many of them. Though he exaggerates with wild abandon, Golfag is still the most successful of all Ogre mercenary captains. He has won countless battles, looted upon the sacred island of Ulthuan, set eyes upon ruinous Skavenblight and survived, guzzled more kegs of Bugman's XXXXXX than most Dwarfs have even seen, and been personally decorated by Emperor Karl Franz.

— Warhammer: Ogre Kingdoms Army Book (8th edition)

Theatre

"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause."

— Titus, Titus Andronicus

Webcomics

Arianna: There's going to be a press conference very soon, and when it's done you will be famous. Really famous. You're one of the few people in the world with powers, and you'll be one of the first superheroes, ever. By the end of today you'll be as famous as Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and the like. In a month, you'll be as famous as Neil Armstrong. There probably won't be anywhere in the world you can go where you won't be recognized.
Sydney: Eh... sounds... great.
Arianna: It will be a big change in your life, and being on the team will take up all your time. I wish I had longer to prepare you for it, but we have to get you outfitted and introduced to the team.
Sydney: ...but I get to be a superhero.

— Grrl Power, "A Cautionary Clause"

Kaff Tagon: This is Captain Tagon. What's your ETA?
Comms Tech: Wait, the Captain Tagon?
Kaff Tagon: Um, yes?
Comms Tech: Wow, this is such an honor. You're required reading these days.
Kaff Tagon: But... I haven't written anything.
Comms Tech: Not that, sir, your dossier. It's amazing.
Kaff Tagon: Can I talk to someone who hasn't read it, and knows your ETA?

— Schlock Mercenary

Daggermother: Every respectable intelligence agency has files on you.
Kaff Tagon: I guess that's not so bad.
Daggermother: I must, however, concede that I first obtained your dossier from a fan page on Spacelook.
Schlock: Whatever that is I didn't do it.

— Schlock Mercenary, June 8th 2017

Real Life

"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."

— Socrates

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