Famous quotes containing the words public and/or accounting:
“I do not like to “interest” the public with myself.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)