Quotes of Popularity - somelinesforyou

“ Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. ”

- William Penn

“ I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. ”

- John Keats

“ To exchange principles for popularity might be a temptation. It's at the core of populism. We must offer something else. ”

- Kjell Magne Bondevik

“ True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. ”

- Lord Mansfield

“ Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. ”

- C. L. R. James

“ Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ”

- Dave Barry

“ To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Avoid popularity if you would have peace. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. ”

- Unknown

“ I wouldn't say I invented tack, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. ”

- Bette Midler

“ Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ Popularity is not leadership. ”

- Richard Marcinko

“ Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Popularity? It's glory's small change. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. ”

- Edwin Forrest

“ There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ Stardom is becoming, superstardom is being. ”

- Unknown

“ Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ”

- John Fisher

“ Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ”

- Margaret Witter Fuller

“ We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. ”

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

“ Popular applause veers with the wind. ”

- John Bright

“ Applause waits on success. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ He liked to like people, therefore people liked him. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. ”

- Peter De Vries

“ By common consent of all the nations and all ages, the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved. ”

- Mark Twain
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