Widespread Public

Famous quotes containing the words widespread and/or public:

    “Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    “I’ll sing you a new ballad, and I’ll warrant it first-rate,
    Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;
    When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate
    On ev’ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev’ry noble gate,
    In the fine old English Tory times;”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1890)