Quotes about popularity

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

— Yogi Berra

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

— Thomas Carlyle

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

— Epicurus

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

— Fournier

Applause waits on success.

— Benjamin Franklin

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

— Erich Fromm

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

— Margaret Fuller

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

— Jerry Garcia

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.

— John Keats

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

— Abraham Lincoln

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

— James Mackintosh

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

— Lord Mansfield

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

— Bette Midler

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

— Wilson Mizner

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

— William Penn

The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.

— Proverb

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

— Mark Twain

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

— Mark Twain

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

— Source Unknown

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

— Peter De Vries

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde