Public Opinion Quotes

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: "It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.