Popularity quotations

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◆ Friendship is not about beauty or popularity because it is about someone who likes your personality.

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

- Oscar Wilde98

◆ Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost

- John Adams98

◆ Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no

- George Savile98

◆ Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and the infant, and give top liberty a land to live in? Then must taxation, as the means by which these things are done, be popular likewi

- Thomas Paine98

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

- Lord Mansfield98

◆ Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right

- Mark Twain98

◆ Everything popular is wrong.

- Oscar Wilde98

◆ Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

- Oscar Wilde98

◆ Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

- Dave Barry98

◆ There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

- Edgar Allan Poe98

◆ Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold

- Will Rogers98

◆ Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

- Lord North98

◆ Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

- Immanuel Kant98

◆ You are not in business to be popular.

- Kirstie Alley98