quotations about popularity
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
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
He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity.
OSCAR WILDE
Men and Memories
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
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 generally an appeal to the people from the sentence given by men of sense against them.
GEORGE SAVILE
"Moral Thoughts and Reflections", Complete Works
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