quotations about popularity
Art thou base, common and popular?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
It's a universal phenomenon--if you appear desirable, more members of the opposite sex will desire you. The appearance of popularity automatically raises your popularity. It's not a bad evolutionary system--if you see a potential mate being pursued by members of the opposite sex, it pays to check it out.
ROBERT T. BAKKER
Raptor Red
Popularity is a form of collaborative filtering, which is a technology that uses the preferences of a community of users to recommend items to individual users.
MARK LEVENE
An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation
Popularity is a fickle jade.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO
Yevtushenko Poems
Popular applause veers with the wind.
JOHN BRIGHT
attributed, Day's Collacon
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men, he is constantly acting a studied part. The bold and peculiar traits of native character are refined away or softened down by the levelling influence of what is termed good-breeding, and he practices so many petty deceptions and affects so many generous sentiments for the purposes of popularity that it is difficult to distinguish his real from his artificial character.
WASHINGTON IRVING
Philip of Pokanoket
I don't know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
JOHN BRUNNER
The Jagged Orbit
Popularity is like the brightness of a falling star, the fleeting splendor of a rainbow, the bubble that is sure to burst by its very inflation.
CHATFIELD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to the mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository
Popularity is not an accurate measurement of a man's worth in his community, nor of his estimation by Jehovah God.
HENRY T. SCHOLL
"Popularity", The Christian Work and the Evangelist, October 20, 1906
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
A critical feature of the concept of popularity is that it refers to the status of an individual entity within a group. A particular item or person cannot be popular without the presence of a group to give it this status.
WILLIAM M. BUKOWSKI
"Popularity as a Social Concept: Meanings and Significance", Popularity in the Peer System
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
The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blameable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Essays on Men and Manners
He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity.
OSCAR WILDE
Men and Memories
It wasn't something you strove for or wished for or worked for, no matter how many silly articles and teenage novels and Hollywood movies tried to convince you otherwise. Popularity was something other people decided for you--other people decided you were fun and pretty and interesting and wanted to be your friend.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository
Popularity is best estimated by its quality and character; it is far better to conquer than to court it; to be indifferent to it than to be concerned about it.
LORD ACTON
Acton; Or, The Circle of Life
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 like rain; it sometimes comes rushing from the mountains in a torrent that sweeps all before it, and does a deal of mischief; at others, in refreshing showers, and is the spring of everything that is good.
ANONYMOUS
The Contest