Quotes with popularity

  • Popularity? It's glory's small change.
  • One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
  • 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.
  • The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
  • Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
  • True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
  • In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
+4

Quotes 1 till 20 of 27.

1 2 Next 
  • Horace Greeley Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
    - +
    +1
  • Susan Sontag 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
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • Abraham Lincoln Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
    - +
     0
  • William Penn Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
    - +
     0
  • Edmund Burke But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides of the people.
    Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
    - +
     0
  • Anthony Holden I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
    - +
     0
  • John Keats I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
    - +
     0
  • Bette Midler I wouldn't say I invented tack, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
    - +
     0
  • A. N. Wilson In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bud Grant Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
    - +
     0
  • Kin Hubbard Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Springsteen No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • George W. Bush One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Charles Horton Cooley One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
    - +
     0
  • Wilson Mizner Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
    - +
     0
  • Richard Marcinko Popularity is not leadership.
    Richard Marcinko
    American Navy officer and Vietnam War veteran (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Victor Hugo Popularity? It's glory's small change.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Campbell The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
    Thomas Campbell
    Scottish poet (1777 - 1844)
    - +
     0
1 2 Next 
All popularity famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com

Popular subjects

Popular authors