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

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

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

-Ewart, Gavin Buchanan
  'Seamus Heaney'.

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

-Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret, Marchioness Ossoli
  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.

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

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

-Shaw, George Bernard
  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.

-Steinem, Gloria
  '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.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Thoughts on Religion.