quotations about popularity
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
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
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
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
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
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
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO
attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Love of popularity may create an artificial goodness, and stir up hypocrisy to adorn a whited sepulcher.
LYDIA HOWARD SIGOURNEY
Letters to Young Ladies