One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

-Asquith
Of the three sets of figures kept by the War Office. Quoted in Alistair Horne Price of Glory (1962).

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  The Orators, dedication.

   I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'September1,1939'.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for theyare impediments to great enterprises, eitherof virtue or mischief.Certainly thebest works, and ofgreatest meritfor thepublic, haveproceededfromthe unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

Film art has a greater influence on the minds of the general public than any other art.

-Balazs, Bela originally Hubert Bauer
  Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art (translated by Edith Bone).

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

-Beecham, SirThomas
Quoted in Harold  Atkins and  Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

When a public man lays his hand on his heart and declares that his conduct needs no apology, the audience hastens to put up its umbrellas against the particularly severe downpour of apologies in store for it. I won't give the customary warning. My conduct shrieks aloud for apology, and you are in for a thorough drenching.

-Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
  'A Straight Talk' (parody of George Bernard Shaw), in the Saturday Review, 22 Dec.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

-Berkeley, George
  Maxims Concerning Patriotism.

   And because I was a poet, and because the public praised me, With their critical deductions for the modern writer's fault; I could sit at rich men's tables,öthough the courtesies that raise me, Still suggested clear between us, the pale spectrum of the salt.

-Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett
  Poems,'Lady Geraldine's Courtship', stanza 9.

Well,British Public, ye who like me not, (God love you!)

-Browning, Robert
^9  The Ring and the Book, bk.1, l.410

   It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

-Burke, Edmund
  Observations on a LatePublication on thePresentState of the Nation, 2nd edn.

   The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Journal entry.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  In the New Statesman, 25 Feb.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time.

-Coolidge, (John) Calvin
  Telegram to the President of the  American Federation of Labor, while Coolidge was Governor of Massachusetts during the Boston police strike.

I found that incredible thing, a public.

-Crawford,Joan originally Lucille Fay le Sueur
Quoted in  Alexander Walker Joan Crawford (1983).

Le public ne sait pas toujours de¤  sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.

-Diderot, Denis
  Discours sur la poe¤  sie dramatique.

Le ro" l e d'un auteur est un ro"  le assez vain; c'est celui d'un homme qui se croit en e¤  tat de donner des le c° ons au public. Et le ro"  le du critique? Il est bien plus vain encore; c'est celui d'un homme qui se croit en e¤  tat de donner des le c° ons a'   celui qui se croit en e¤  tat d'en donner au public. Therole oftheauthor isvain enough; it isthat of a person who considers himself able to give lessons to the public. And the role of the critic? It is vainer still; it is that of a person who considers himself able to give lessons to he who considers himself able to give them to the public.

-Diderot, Denis
  Discours sur la poe¤  sie dramatique.

My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

-Dryden,John
  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Felix Holt, ch.3.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

-Feynman, Richard P(hillips)
  What DoYOU CareWhat Other People Think?