Popularity

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

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(208 votes)   The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.

Proverbs

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(161 votes)   Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(105 votes)   If Barbie is so popular, then why do we buy all her freinds?

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

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(85 votes)   Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Yogi Berra
1925-, American Baseball Player

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(77 votes)   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
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(71 votes)   He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(70 votes)   Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Peter De Vries
1910-, American Author

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

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(64 votes)   Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(63 votes)   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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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
1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian

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(58 votes)   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.

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

Fournier

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(50 votes)   True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

Lord Mansfield
1867-1915, British Artist, Author

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