Famous quotes containing the words public and/or spending:
“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)