Bayley Quotes

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be felt where conscience is dormant.

Irrespective of my father's support, if people don't like me there's nothing my family status can do about it.

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

I was never looking to be popular. The trade-off for me in seeking other people's opinions is the potential to help that you get in the media. And we don't always do that, but when we do, it's a beautiful thing.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

The single biggest weakness that politicians have as a group is that they want people to like them.

It’s better to be quotable than to be honest.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

It’s not hard to be popular if you take a poll to find out what it means to be popular.

I trust that the time may never come when the love of fame shall cease to be the sovereign passion of public men.

All I care about is what the boys at the fork of the creek think of me.

I don't care if my popularity rating goes down to zero.

Everyone wishes to catch popular applause for himself, and readily represses the fame of others.

He whose honor is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation.