#Popularity Quotes

“I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.”

“He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.”

“Popularity is for dolls.”

“Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.”

“Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.”

“The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.”

“Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.”

“When we are high and airy hundreds sayThat if we hold that flight they'll leave the place,While those same hundreds mock another dayBecause we have made our art of common things.”

“I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.”

“Popularity? It's glory's small change.”

“Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.”

“I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.”

“I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.”

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

“I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.”

“I was unpopular my whole life.”

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

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.”

“Everything that is popular is wrong.”

“The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.”

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”

“Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.”

“The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.”

“I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.”

“When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.”

“I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.”

“The best of us would rather be popular than right.”

“The popular breeze - Aura popularis”

“In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.”

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

“I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.”

“I will not change just to court popularity.”

“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”

“Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one of my smarty friends, that would have got that amount of likes. So now you take this photo that has that amount of likes, and it has a flower wall from the same guy who does the Lanvin shows, and it has a couture Givenchy dress and Givenchy tuxedo in it. That's the point. Now the thing that is the most popular is also communicating the highest level of creativity. The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.”

“People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.”

“Being a leader means that you're going to have to make difficult calls. You have to have the courage to do what's right, even if it's not popular.”

“I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.”

“Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.”

“what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.”

“Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.”

“There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.”

“If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.”

“Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.”

“In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.”

“A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.”

“For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.”

“If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”