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
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.
Saul Bellow
Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
Kin Hubbard
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Philip Larkin
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 senate.
Orson Welles
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
Sances lost their popularity with the invention of infrared photography when it became possible to see what mediums were doing in the dark. Nowadays, spiritualists fakery is more ambiguous and subtle.
Derren Victor Brown
Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.
Mike Fitzpatrick
Popularity is not an indication of quality.
Vanna Bonta
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
John Arbuthnot Fisher
War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.
Chaz Bufe