popular quotes

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. Such popular humanity is treason.

-Joseph Addison
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.205^6.

He's very popular among his mates. I think I'm Auden, he thinks he'sYeats.

- Gavin Buchanan Ewart
  'Seamus Heaney'.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

- (Sarah) Margaret, Marchioness Ossoli Fuller
  Letter to her brother, 20 Dec. Collected in  Alice Rossi The Feminist Papers (1973).

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

- Robert Studley Forrest Hughes
  On a Caravaggio exhibition. In Time,11 Mar.

   Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Marriage'.

I've finally figured out whysoap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown- up women have to deal with all day long.

- Gloria Steinem
  'NightThoughts of a MediaWatcher', collected in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983).

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved inanynationwhere Christianity wasthereligion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

-Jonathan Swift
  Thoughts on Religion.