(505 quotes found)
“It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”
Jerry Seinfeld
“Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.”
Oscar Wilde
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter”
Thomas Jefferson
“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”
A. J. Liebling
“In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.”
Dave Barry
“The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.”
George Harrison
“We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”
Henry Miller
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization”
George Bernard Shaw
“From the American newspapers, you'd think America was populated by naked women and cinema stars”
Nancy Witcher Astor Viscountess