Delayed Appreciation Quotes

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.

'Raging Bull' was badly received at first. It took 10 years for it to be recognised.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

The thing I'm going through is probably like the same thing that Little Richard and all these other artists go through, that I hear about them, saying, 'Oh damn, you ain't gonna give me nothing till I die,' ... I feel like I'm one of those type of great people that just going to have to wait till it's all over with for people to really sit around and talk about it.