quotations about popularity
To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap.
JENNIFER ZIEGLER
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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
Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to the mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository
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 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
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