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Popularity Quotes - Page 2

To please the many is to displease the wise.

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.14

I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.

"Ben Barnes: the prince's wardrobe" by Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.80, Oxford University Press, USA

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

Robert Rankin (2011). “The Gollancz eBook Collection (eBook): Eight Fantastic Novels by Robert Rankin”, p.155, Hachette UK

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

Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

"Gore accepts Democratic nomination 'as my own man'" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. August 18, 2000.

He that has many friends, has no friends.

Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.71, Lulu Press, Inc

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.196