[Ads-l] No such thing as bad publicity.

[mr_peter_morris@outlook.com]

"All publicity is good. Even bad publicity is better than no
publicity."

Seems like a variation of Oscar Wilde's famous quote :
 "What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world
to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to
throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world
worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 1, 1891



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The New Yale Book of Quotations has a positive version, "all publicity is good publicity," from 1910.

Fred Shapiro

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Subject: No such thing as bad publicity.

1920 Norfolk [Neb.] Press (Sept. 16) 2 [Newspapers.com]: Once upon time
Norris A. Huse [1882-1937, organizer of United Features Syndicate]
remarked: "All publicity is good. Even bad publicity is better than no
publicity."

1926 Adventure (Oct. 23) 121 [Int. Arch.]: There's no such thing as bad
publicity.

1929 Sunday People (London) (Dec. 22) 9 [Newspapers.com] From [film star]
Pola Negri['s] point of view there's no such thing as bad publicity.

1934 N.Y. Post (Oct. 29) 11 [GenealogyBank]: [International adventuress
Lola Montez] went on the theory that there is no such thing as bad
publicity.

JL

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