24 quotes about Newspapers

I keep reading between the lies.

— Ace, Goodman

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

— Baer, Arthur

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

— Bonaparte, Napoleon

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

— Daley, Richard J.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

— Dickens, Charles

Headlines twice the size of the events.

— Galsworthy, John

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

— Hearst, William Randolph

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

— Heine, Heinrich

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.

— Jefferson, Thomas

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.

— Jefferson, Thomas

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.

— Jefferson, Thomas

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

— Jefferson, Thomas

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

— Johnson, Ben

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

— Lamb, Charles

Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

— Mailer, Norman

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

— Miller, Arthur

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

— Orwell, George

All I know is just what I read in the papers.

— Rogers, Will

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

— Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage.

— Stanton, Will

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

— Stoppard, Tom

It is the newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

— Storey, Wilbur F.

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.

— Warren, Earl

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

— Wilde, Oscar