• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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  Anonymous

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• The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges

  

  André Breton

  WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 134 reads

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• The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 63 votes · 128 reads

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• The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.0 · 35 votes · 16 reads

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• The public seldom forgive twice.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 159 reads

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• The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.0 · 7 votes · 19 reads

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• The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.4 · 48 votes · 79 reads

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• The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in f

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.3 · 26 votes · 113 reads

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• There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 186 reads

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• There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.5 · 30 votes · 18 reads

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• To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  4.5 · 38 votes · 102 reads

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• Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 54 reads

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