Popularity Quotes

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.

~ John Green

M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much that he had left his heart in other people's books, and all that remained was dryness. One day I asked him how he came to know so much. He said, 'Not by being such a handsome young man as you. I wasn't in demand, and instead of going out I studied and learned'.

~ Céleste Albaret

Do not exchange your dignity for popularity.

~ Steve Maraboli

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

~ Agatha Christie

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

~ Stephen L. Carter

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

~ William Penn

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

~ Bud Grant

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

~ Jonathan Mayhew

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

~ Abraham Lincoln