| Author |
Quotes |
| Matthew Arnold | Journalism is literature in a hurry. |
| Maureen Dowd | Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last. |
| Mike Ditka | What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. |
| Otto von Bismarck | Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied. |
| Rebecca West | Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. |
| Richard Cobden | I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. |
| Robert Burns | Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it: A chield's amang you takin notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. |
| William Randolph Hearst | Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. |
| Joseph Addison | I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage. |
| Joseph Addison | The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye, without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt. |
| Joseph Addison | They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons. |
| Oscar Wilde | The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. |
| Oscar Wilde | The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. |
| Thomas Carlyle | A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. |
| Thomas Carlyle | Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? |
| Thomas Carlyle | Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament, but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. |
| Thomas Carlyle | A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. |
| William Cowper | Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. |
| William Cowper | How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. |
| William Cowper | He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering at his back. |
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