Public Quotes

You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp.

Aneurin Bevan

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Charles Dickens

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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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 Hazlitt

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

Virginia Woolf

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Richard Milhous Nixon