(781 quotes found)
“The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.”
Will Smith
“The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing”
Damon Knight
“Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senat.”
Orson Welles
“You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.”
Aristophanes
“Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.”
Saul Bellow
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
David Hume
“Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.”
Karol Newlin
“True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after”
Lord Mansfield
“This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.”
Conan O'Brien
“Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.”
Will Durant
