Popularity
The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book.
The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.
Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.
The act of courting the favor of the people.
Public sentiment; general passion.
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Popularity Quotations
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
Fred Allen
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh Sherman
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. Rowling
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
J. K. Rowling
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
David Hume
Popularity Translations
popularity in Spanish is popularidad
popularity in Swedish is popularitet
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