Quotes About Public

When we have public success we also have private struggles.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

Its not weird being recognised, but its weird having to stop what youre doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.

The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.

Francaise with our own proper pack. This permission, we feel bound to say, was graciously granted; which compels us here to give a public contradiction to the slanderers who pretend that we live

This is all very well, sir," he said to the officer, "but this warrant contains no other name than mine, and so you have no right to expose thus to the public gaze the lady with whom I was travelling when you arrested me. I must beg of you to order your assistants to allow this carriage to drive on; then take me where you please, for I am ready to go with you.

The brothers De Witt have been judged by the people, said Gryphus; you call that murdered, do you? well, I call it executed.

The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.

A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.

A certain degree of power must be granted to public officers, for they would be of no use without it. But the ostensible semblance of authority is by no means indispensable to the conduct of affairs, and it is needlessly offensive to the susceptibility of the public.

The two chief weapons which parties use in order to ensure success are the public press and the formation of associations.

I am of opinion that a central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit.

By granting to the senators the privilege of being chosen for several years, and being renewed seriatim, the law takes care to preserve in the legislative body a nucleus of men already accustomed to public business, and capable of exercising a salutary influence upon the junior members.

The personal opinions of the editors have no kind of weight in the eyes of the public: the only use of a journal is, that it imparts the knowledge of certain facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views.