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