quotations about popularity
Researchers from Nottingham Trent University analysed more than 5,000 online relationships and discovered that we are prepared to stick with negative and abusive material in our Facebook timelines as long as that content is produced by a popular person. It turns out that popularity overpowers negativity. We accept negative people, and those who cause conflict, as long as they are popular.
GRAHAM JONES
"Popular People Do Not Get 'Unfriended' Even if Abusive", Business 2 Community, May 9, 2016
I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.
TOM UPTON
Vanished
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
Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON
Memoirs and Essays
But though he did everything to alienate the sympathy of other boys he longed with all his heart for the popularity which to some was so easily accorded. These from his distance he admired extravagantly; and though he was inclined to be more sarcastic with them than with others, though he made little jokes at their expense, he would have given anything to change places with them.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Of Human Bondage
Popularity ... is generally an appeal to the people from the sentence given by men of sense against them.
GEORGE SAVILE
"Moral Thoughts and Reflections", Complete Works
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