Quotes About Public

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public?

The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

The public be damned.

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

At home I am a nice guy, but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't go very far.

There was all the world and his wife.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Whatever you promise the public in your advertising, or whatever you lead the public to expect, even though not explicitly stated, is what the public gets sore about if it isn't delivered, and the explosion of a grouch is heard much farther than the gentle hum of satisfaction. It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.

Let the public discover that 5 per cent of your advertising is exaggeration, and it immediately suspects the other 95 per cent.

Many merchants who try to write their own advertising make a fizzle of it because they are too close to their own business to see it in the proper perspective. They look at it from their own standpoint rather than from the standpoint of the public.

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.' (1923)

You shouldn't have private conversations in public facilities at the top of your lungs." Point well taken, Eve was forced to admit.

He just took her mouth again, spun her again--twice and toward the bed. She considered putting up a fight, for form's sake, but just wriggled back enough to scowl at him. I'm working. Not yet, and you're mostly naked. Such a fine look on you, one of my favorites. Then why is that closet full of clothes? Because being an understanding sort, I appreciate your insistence on being fully dressed in public.

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this time, it is not. It is my bussines, mine alone. 'This place being what?' 'This place being South Africa