Public Enemy Number

Famous quotes containing the words public, enemy and/or number:

“Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“The innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.”
—John Major (b. 1943)