Thepublic has always expectedmetobea playboyanda decent chap never lets his public down.

-Fo, Dario
Quoted in Gary Herman The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979).

I was not meant for the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here running people down is considered sport. 332

-Foster,Vince(nt W,Jr)
  Note found after his suicide. Reported in the NewYork Times,13  Aug.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that's all theyare. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

-French, Marilyn
  The Women's Room, bk.5, ch.19.

Poetryisnotanexpressionofthepartyline.It'sthattimeof night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

-Ginsberg, Allen
Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.

It is not easy nowadays to remember anything so contrary to all appearances as that officials are the servants of the public; and the official must try not to foster the illusion that it is the other way round.

-Gowers, Sir Ernest Arthur
  Plain Words, ch.3.

If the British public falls for this, I say that it will be stark, staring bonkers.

-Hailsham, Quintin (McGarel) Hogg, 2nd Viscount
  Press conference on the Labour electionmanifesto,12 Oct.

The public doesn't want new music: the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

-Honegger, Arthur
I Am a Composer.

On a voulu, a'   tort, faire de la bourgeoisie une classe. La bourgeoisie est tout simplement la portion contente¤  e du peuple. Le bourgeois, c'est l'homme qui a maintenant le temps de s'asseoir.Une chaise n'est pas une caste. Humboldt Wrongly, one wanted to make the bourgeoisie a class. The bourgeoisie is simply a contented section of the public. A bourgeois is a man who now has the time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Les Mise¤  rables, vol.4, bk.1, ch.2.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

-Jefferson,Thomas
  Letter to Baron von Humboldt.

It might have been supposed that competition between expert professionals, possessing judgement and knowledge beyond that of the average private investor, would correct the vagaries of the ignorant individual left to himself. It happens, however, that the energies and skills of the professional investor and speculator are mainly occupied elsewhere. For most of these persons are, in fact, largely concerned, not with making superior long-term forecasts of the probable yield on an investment over its whole life, but with foreseeing changes in the conventional bias of valuation a short time ahead of the general public† This battle of wits to anticipate the basis of conventional valuation a few months hence, rather than the prospective yield of an investment over a long term of years, does not even require gulls amongst the public to feed the maws of the professional; it can be played by professionals amongst themselves.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

-Krugman, Paul R
  The Age of Diminished Expectations.

Given that the deepest problem with the US economy is slow productivity growth, it is difficult to argue for tax increasesthat might reduceincentives† Thereseemsto Kuhn be a public consensus that Donald Trump is the price of progress.

-Krugman, Paul R
  The Age of Diminished Expectations.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

-Kyd,Thomas
c.1589  The Spanish Tragedy, act 3, sc.2.

Supposing the Press in order, the people in their right wits, and news or no news to be the question, a Public Mercury should not have my Vote, because I think it makes the Multitude too familiar with the actions and counsels of their superiors, too pragmatical and censorious, and gives them not onlyan itch but a kind of colourable right to be meddling with the government.

-L'Estrange, Sir Roger
  The Intelligencer, 31  Aug.

The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.

-Lippmann,Walter
  The Public Philosophy, ch.4.

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

-Lucas, George
  In the NewYork Times, 9  Jun.

It is this tendency to play with manic enthusiasm on every possible occasion that distinguishes the amateur jazz musician from the professional, often to the public detriment of the latter, who are regarded as snootyand unfriendly.

-Lyttelton, Humphrey Richard Adeane
  Why No Beethoven?, ch.1.

We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

-1st Baron
  In the Edinburgh Review.

The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendencyamong landlords and persons of property tobuild,toimproveand beautify theirgrounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

-Malthus,Thomas Robert
  Principles of Political Economy.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to deaththose citizens or groups who question that status.

-Mamet, David Alan
  Writing in Restaurants,'Some Thoughts On Writing In Restaurants'.