quotations about popularity
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
To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap.
JENNIFER ZIEGLER
How Not to Be Popular
Popularity is bound in issues of finding a public for oneself, an audience for which one might perform.
JEFFREY STEVEN DOTY
Popularity and Publicity in Early Modern England
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
GEORGE SAVILE
"Of Ambition", The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit to thyself; and uncertainty to others.
WILLIAM PENN
Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO
attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Popularity is not always about admiring those who are more talented, beautiful, wealthy, famous, or influential; certain forms of popularity come from someone willing to poke fun at their own misfortunes and admit that they are far from a glamorous model of perfection.
CAN AKDENIZ
Popularity: How to Become Famous
Love of popularity may create an artificial goodness, and stir up hypocrisy to adorn a whited sepulcher.
LYDIA HOWARD SIGOURNEY
Letters to Young Ladies