POPULARITY QUOTES II

quotations about popularity

Art thou base, common and popular?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry V

Tags: William Shakespeare


Popularity is not an accurate measurement of a man's worth in his community, nor of his estimation by Jehovah God.

HENRY T. SCHOLL

"Popularity", The Christian Work and the Evangelist, October 20, 1906


Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to the mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.

MELISSA DE LA CRUZ

Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository


Popularity is a fickle jade.

YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO

Yevtushenko Poems


Popularity is a form of collaborative filtering, which is a technology that uses the preferences of a community of users to recommend items to individual users.

MARK LEVENE

An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation


I don't know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

JOHN BRUNNER

The Jagged Orbit


Popular applause veers with the wind.

JOHN BRIGHT

attributed, Day's Collacon


Researchers from Nottingham Trent University analysed more than 5,000 online relationships and discovered that we are prepared to stick with negative and abusive material in our Facebook timelines as long as that content is produced by a popular person. It turns out that popularity overpowers negativity. We accept negative people, and those who cause conflict, as long as they are popular.

GRAHAM JONES

"Popular People Do Not Get 'Unfriended' Even if Abusive", Business 2 Community, May 9, 2016


It's a universal phenomenon--if you appear desirable, more members of the opposite sex will desire you. The appearance of popularity automatically raises your popularity. It's not a bad evolutionary system--if you see a potential mate being pursued by members of the opposite sex, it pays to check it out.

ROBERT T. BAKKER

Raptor Red

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Popularity is like rain; it sometimes comes rushing from the mountains in a torrent that sweeps all before it, and does a deal of mischief; at others, in refreshing showers, and is the spring of everything that is good.

ANONYMOUS

The Contest


Popularity is like the brightness of a falling star, the fleeting splendor of a rainbow, the bubble that is sure to burst by its very inflation.

CHATFIELD

attributed, Day's Collacon


In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men, he is constantly acting a studied part. The bold and peculiar traits of native character are refined away or softened down by the levelling influence of what is termed good-breeding, and he practices so many petty deceptions and affects so many generous sentiments for the purposes of popularity that it is difficult to distinguish his real from his artificial character.

WASHINGTON IRVING

Philip of Pokanoket

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It wasn't something you strove for or wished for or worked for, no matter how many silly articles and teenage novels and Hollywood movies tried to convince you otherwise. Popularity was something other people decided for you--other people decided you were fun and pretty and interesting and wanted to be your friend.

MELISSA DE LA CRUZ

Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository


But though he did everything to alienate the sympathy of other boys he longed with all his heart for the popularity which to some was so easily accorded. These from his distance he admired extravagantly; and though he was inclined to be more sarcastic with them than with others, though he made little jokes at their expense, he would have given anything to change places with them.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Of Human Bondage

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I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.

TOM UPTON

Vanished


A critical feature of the concept of popularity is that it refers to the status of an individual entity within a group. A particular item or person cannot be popular without the presence of a group to give it this status.

WILLIAM M. BUKOWSKI

"Popularity as a Social Concept: Meanings and Significance", Popularity in the Peer System


Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

WASHINGTON ALLSTON

Memoirs and Essays

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Popularity is best estimated by its quality and character; it is far better to conquer than to court it; to be indifferent to it than to be concerned about it.

LORD ACTON

Acton; Or, The Circle of Life

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He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity.

OSCAR WILDE

Men and Memories

Tags: Oscar Wilde


Popularity ... is generally an appeal to the people from the sentence given by men of sense against them.

GEORGE SAVILE

"Moral Thoughts and Reflections", Complete Works