popular quotes

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

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.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‚The Hornet’s Nest,‘ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?