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Popularity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Their poet, a sad trimmer, but no less In company a very pleasant fellow, Had been the favorite of full many a mess Of men, and made them speeches when half mellow; And though his meaning they could rarely guess, Yet still they deign'd to hiccup or to bellow The glorious meed of popular applause, Of which the first ne'er knows the second cause.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto III. St. 82.

Some shout him, and some hang upon his car, To gaze in his eyes, and bless him. Maidens wave Their 'kerchiefs, and old women weep for joy; While others, not so satisfied, unhorse The gilded equipage, and turning loose His steeds, usurp a place they well deserve.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. VI. L. 708.

And to some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.— GEO. HENRY LEWES — The Spanish Drama. Ch. III.

I have seen the dumb men throng to see him, and The blind to hear him speak: matrons flung gloves, Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers Upon him as he passed; the nobles bended, As to Jove's statue, and the commons made A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 278.

The ladies call him sweet; The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet.— Shakespeare — Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 329.