Popularity Quotes

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

The popular breeze - Aura popularis

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

The popularity of the party and Yingluck is getting more and more.

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

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

If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute.

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!

Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

He that has many friends, has no friends.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.