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
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"Of Ambition", The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile
I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.
TOM UPTON
Vanished
To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap.
JENNIFER ZIEGLER
How Not to Be Popular
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
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 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? 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