News Quotes


Bad news travels fast. American Proverbs News 163
A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. Arthur Miller News 162
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman News 124
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and those who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau News 110
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. George Orwell News 98
Evil report carries faster than any applause. Baltasar Gracian News 95
News is the first rough draft of history. Philip L. Graham News 92
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. Heinrich Heine News 91
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. Voltaire (Fran News 90
Headlines twice the size of the events. John Galsworthy News 85
All I know is just what I read in the papers. Will Rogers News 82
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it. David Brinkley News 82
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things have been going right for so many of the wrong persons. Ogden Nash News 81
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. Charles Dickens News 78
I keep reading between the lies. Goodman Ace News 75
The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson News 72
People have this illusion that all over the world, all of the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world nothing is happening. David Brinkley News 65
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. Milan Kundera News 64
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon. Oscar Wilde News 63
Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage. Will Stanton News 63
None loves the messenger who brings bad news. Sophocles News 62
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside. Brooks Atkinson News 60
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson News 56
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. Tom Stoppard News 55
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. David Brinkley News 55
Write about society as news and treat it like sociology. Clifton Daniel News 55
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. Ogden Nash News 55
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon News 50
A newspaper is the lowest thing there is. Richard J. Daley News 48
No news is good news. Ludovic Halevy News 45
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the news papers another. G.K. Chesterton News 45
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. Arthur Baer News 42
Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. Norman Mailer News 40
Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely? E. C. Bentley News 24
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson News 23
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. Benjamin Disraeli News 22

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