Popularity Quotes - Page 2
Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.14
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
Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”
Robert Rankin (2011). “The Gollancz eBook Collection (eBook): Eight Fantastic Novels by Robert Rankin”, p.155, Hachette UK
The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.
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
George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.87, London, Knight
Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.71, Lulu Press, Inc
William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.196