Quotes about newspapers

I keep reading between the lies.

— Goodman Ace

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

— Arthur Baer

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

— Richard J. Daley

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

— Charles Dickens

Headlines twice the size of the events.

— John Galsworthy

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

— William Randolph Hearst

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

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Ben Johnson

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

— Charles Lamb

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

— Norman Mailer

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

— Arthur Miller

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

— George Orwell

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Will Stanton

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Wilbur F. Storey

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

— Earl Warren

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

— Oscar Wilde