Newspaper Quotes

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. View quote
Arthur Miller
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. View quote
Gore Vidal
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. View quote
William M. Tweed
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea. (William Howard Taft)
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. (L'Express newspaper 2000) View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe ... every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. View quote
Hannes Alfvén
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. View quote
Henri Matisse
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. View quote
Mark Twain
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources. (Bob Woodward)
The newspapers Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal Not that I ever read them No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. View quote
Mark Twain
I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead: men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideals. View quote
Charles Bukowski
We live in the midst of alarms anxiety beclouds the future we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. View quote
Abraham Lincoln