quotations about newspapers
The newspapers only repeat the side their purchasers like: the favourable arguments are set out, elaborated, illustrated; the adverse arguments maimed, misstated, confused.
WALTER BAGEHOT
The English Constitution
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.
NEIL GAIMAN
American Gods
That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
GARRISON KEILLOR
"That Old Picayune-Moon", Harper's, September 1990
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.
How diligently they read them!
Here they find their law and profits,
their judges and chronicles,
their epistles and revelations.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The Salt Cellars
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
MARK TWAIN
attributed, Congressional Record, July 10, 2009
They vomit their gall and call it a newspaper.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in congress.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
BEN HECHT
attributed, Jewish Wit and Wisdom
In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.
HEINRICH HEINE
Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine
The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
WALTER LIPPMANN
attributed, Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2006
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical
In short, if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Three Guineas
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.
G. K. CHESTERTON
All Things Considered
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MENCKEN
A Mencken Chrestomathy
Give someone half a page in a newspaper and they think they own the world.
JEFFREY BERNARD
attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations