Newspapers Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American writer
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
H. L Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist Possible?
Is anything possible? Read the newspapers.
Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) British soldier, statesman
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
We welcome almost any break in the monotony of things, and a man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.
Robert Lynd (1879-1949) Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, critic
The mission of a modern newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
anonymous
Headlines twice the size of the events.
John Galsworthy (1867-1933) English author
Journalism consists largely in saying “Lord Jones Dead” to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
Half the world does not know how the other half lives, but is trying to find out.
Ed (E. W. Howe) (1853-1937) American journalist, novelist
Whenever people are well-informed they can be trustee) with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American president
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) American abolitionist, orator
Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
C. R Scott (1846-1932) British author, journalist
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author
Reading someone else’s newspaper is like sleeping with someone else’s wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right Place and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
Malcolm Bradbury (b. 1932) British author
