Quotes about newspapers

"I keep reading between the lies."

Ace, Goodman on newspapers
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"A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure."

Baer, Arthur on newspapers   

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon on newspapers   

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"A newspaper is the lowest thing there is."

Daley, Richard J. on newspapers   

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

Dickens, Charles on newspapers   

"Headlines twice the size of the events."

Galsworthy, John on newspapers   

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

Hearst, William Randolph on newspapers   

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

Heine, Heinrich on newspapers   

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

Jefferson, Thomas on newspapers
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"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 on newspapers   

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

Jefferson, Thomas on newspapers
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"The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper."

Jefferson, Thomas on newspapers
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"I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news."

Johnson, Ben on newspapers   

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

Lamb, Charles on newspapers   

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

Mailer, Norman on newspapers
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"A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself."

Miller, Arthur on newspapers   

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

Orwell, George on newspapers   

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

Rogers, Will on newspapers   

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on newspapers   

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

Stanton, Will on newspapers   

"The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists."

Stoppard, Tom on newspapers   

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

Storey, Wilbur F. on newspapers   

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

Warren, Earl on newspapers   

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

Wilde, Oscar on newspapers