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