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Quotes about Popularity


Popularity is a siren singing on a rock. It is never a thing to be aimed for, not in my opinion

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Mark Twain

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Mark Twain

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

Frank A. Fournier

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

Aldous Huxley

Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Greeley

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

Mrs. Anna Jameson

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

Fournier

Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Greeley

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lord Mansfield

Popularity is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Aldous Huxley

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

Susan Sontag

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

Mrs. Anna Jameson

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.

Brigham Young

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