Popularity Quotes - Page 10

• Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at peace, would have required God on the ticket and She was not available!

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Country, Moving, Office

  "The Top 5 Dos and Don'ts of the Week: Including the Best Video... and the Worst Man" by Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. April 1, 2011.

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• The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Sweet, Taken, Smell

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• The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Secret, Seems, Delighted

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• The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Opinion, Vulgar

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Hitting, Common

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.216

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• I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Running, Mean, Justice

  "Case of John Wilkes", 19 How. St. Tr. 1112, 1113; 8. C. 4 Burr. Part IV. 2562, 1763.

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• Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

  Charlton Heston

  Political, Wish, Pockets

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• Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Public Opinion, Please, Courtesans

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• German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Writing, Names, Boredom

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• Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Coffee, Passing Away, Taste

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• The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Democracy, Energy, May

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.60, University of Chicago Press

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• There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Song, People, Vogue

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• As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Ebb And Flow, Tides, Judgment

  Friedrich Schiller (1854). “The Works of Frederick Schiller ...: Don Carlos. Mary Stuart. The maid of Orleans. The bride of Messina”, p.246

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• Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Stars, Gains, Merit

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• It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Trust, Priorities

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.455, Mango Media Inc.

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• Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

  Karl Kraus

  Law, Wish, Desire

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I'm fascinated.

  Tobin Bell

  Art, Successful, Together

  "EXCLUSIVE: Tobin Bell's First Interview Since Completing Saw IV!". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. June 13, 2007.

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• Actually, Joe Biden looked pretty good. In fact, Joe's popularity has gone from 1% to 2% last week to 3% today. At this rate, he could win the nomination by the year 2032.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Years, Gone

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• I think it's important to remember how quickly sports popularity can change.

  Kelefa Sanneh

  Sports, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• The best of us would rather be popular than right.

  Mark Twain

  Mark Twain (1982). “No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger: Being an Ancient Tale Found in a Jug and Freely Translated from the Jug”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.

  Mason Cooley

  Pain, Killers, Violence

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• The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

  Thomas Campbell

  Baby, Boys, Mind

  Thomas Campbell (1834). “Life of Mrs. Siddons”, p.227

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• One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, School, Thinking

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.34

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• I saw the man my friendwants pardoned, Thomas Flinton. He is a bright, good-looking fellow.... Of his innocence all are confident. The governor strikes me as a man seeking popularity, who lacks the independence and manhood to do right at the risk of losing popularity. Afraid of what will be said. He is prejudiced against the Irish and Democrats.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Men, Risk, Independence

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• The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for inspiration. To me, a food trend is potentially a lot of people following an idea.

  Grant Achatz

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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