History Quotes / FamedInStory

->''"[[StaringDownCthulhu I'm The Doctor]], and you're in the [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything biggest library in the universe]]. [[BadassBoast Look me up.]]"''

-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Franchise/DoctorWho: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]]''

->''Men of Harlech, on to glory\\
See your banner [[TropeNamers famed in story]]\\
Waves these burning words before ye,\\
"Britain scorns to yield!"''
-->-- "Men of Harlech"

->''"Hail! generous youth, whom glory's sacred flame\\
Inspires, and animates to deeds of fame;"''
-->-- '''[[Creator/LordByron George Gordon, Lord Byron]]''', "Epistle to a Young Nobleman in Love"

->''"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."''
-->-- '''Creator/{{Socrates}}'''

->''"Fame is a bee.\\
It has a song\\
It has a sting\\
Ah, too, it has a wing."''
-->-- '''Creator/EmilyDickinson''', "Fame is a Bee"

->''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.''
-->-- '''[[Creator/LordByron George Gordon, Lord Byron]]''', "Answer To A Beautiful Poem, Written By Montgomery"

->''"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause."''
-->-- '''Titus''', ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''

->''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.''
-->-- ''Literature/TheHobbit''

->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 [[BloodMagic blood sorcery]] is rivaled only by the Inner Council of the Tremere. Sabbat younglings dub him "the [[FlayingAlive Flayer]]," "the [[MadDoctor Vivisectionist]]" and a [[IHaveManyNames host of other sobriquets]], but elders among the Sabbat Fiends know him simply as Velya.
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Children Of The Night''

->More tales are told Golgfag than any other Ogre alive, and [[TheMunchausen 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 [[EvilTowerOfOminousness ruinous Skavenblight]] and survived, guzzled more kegs of [[GargleBlaster Bugman's XXXXXX]] than most Dwarfs have even seen, and been personally decorated by [[BigGood Emperor Karl Franz]].
-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Ogre Kingdoms Army Book (8th edition)''

->'''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?
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''

->'''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.
-->-- ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-127-a-cautionary-clause/ "A Cautionary Clause"]]

->'''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.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E01E02TheWayOfTheWarrior The Way of the Warrior]]"

-->-- '''George Gordon, Lord Byron''', "Answer To A Beautiful Poem, Written By Montgomery"

-->-- '''Men of Harlech'''

-->-- '''George Gordon, Lord Byron'''

-->-- '''Creator/EmilyDickinson'''

-->-- '''George Gordon, Lord Byron'''

-->-- '''Creator/WilliamShakespeare'''

-->-- ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/7746817 The Connie Maheswaran Fanclub]], a ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fanfic

->'''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.

-->-- ''Series:StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E01E02TheWayOfTheWarrior The Way of the Warrior]]"

Waves these buring words before ye,\\

->More tales are told Golgfag than any other Ogre alive, and [[TheMunchausen Golgfag himself spins a great many of them]]. Though he exaggerates with wild abandon, Golf 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 [[EvilTowerOfOminousness ruinous Skavenblight]] and survived, guzzled more kegs of [[GargleBlaster Bugman's XXXXXX]] than most Dwarfs have even seen, and been personally decorated by [[BigGood Emperor Karl Franz]].

See your banner [[TropeNamer famed in story]]\\

-->-- '''EmilyDickinson'''

-->--'''TheHobbit'''

-->-- '''WilliamShakespeare'''
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-->-- '''{{Socrates}}'''

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

->Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

->''Fame is a bee.\\

Ah, too, it has a wing.''

->Montgomery! true, the common lot\\

Some shall exist beyond the grave.

->"Unknown the region of his birth,"\\

Which glares a meteor from afar.\\

->His joy or grief, his weal or woe,\\

The record of his deathless name.

->''He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.''

-->'''Men of Harlech'''

-->''Hail! generous youth, whom glory's sacred flame\\

--->'''George Gordon, Lord Byron'''

-->'''{{Socrates}}'''

-->''Fame is a bee.\\

--->'''EmilyDickinson'''

-->Montgomery! true, the common lot\\

-->"Unknown the region of his birth,"\\

-->His joy or grief, his weal or woe,\\

--->'''George Gordon, Lord Byron'''

-->'''WilliamShakespeare'''

-->''The painful warrior famoused for fight,\\
After a thousand victories once foiled,\\
Is from the book of honour razed quite,\\
And all the rest forgot for which he toiled:''
--->'''WilliamShakespeare''', ''Sonnet 25''

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