Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
— Epicurus
Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.
— Fournier
Applause waits on success.
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
Whatever is popular deserves attention.
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
I wouldn't say I invented tack, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
— Proverb
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.