POPULARITY QUOTES III

quotations about popularity

To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap.

JENNIFER ZIEGLER

How Not to Be Popular


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


The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blameable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


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


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

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Popularity? It's glory's small change.

VICTOR HUGO

attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

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Love of popularity may create an artificial goodness, and stir up hypocrisy to adorn a whited sepulcher.

LYDIA HOWARD SIGOURNEY

Letters to Young Ladies


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