Quotes about publicity

"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."

Behan, Brendan F. on publicity   

"All publicity is good, except an obituary notice."

Behan, Brendan F. on publicity   

"The price of justice is eternal publicity."

Bennett, Arnold on publicity   

"Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the same time publicity is its dream."

Berger, John on publicity   

"The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public."

Bernhardt, Sarah on publicity   

"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the genius of the personage, the greater the profit."

Grosz, George on publicity   

"With publicity comes humiliation."

Janowitz, Tama on publicity   

"Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do?"

Kellems, Vivien on publicity   

"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."

Lawrence, Thomas E. on publicity   

"What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself."

Lincoln, Abraham on publicity   

"We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on publicity   

"If you want an audience start a fight."

Proverb, Irish on publicity   

"It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on publicity   

"I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people."

Shakespeare, William on publicity   

"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."

Vidal, Gore on publicity   

"Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it."

Woolf, Virginia on publicity   

"“You cannot be a secret and be profitable.”"

Evans, Suzanne on publicity