News Quotes

Flash'd from his bed the electric tidings came, he is no better, he is much the same.

Source Unknown

Today's news was published by word of mouth in the streets of ancient Athens.

Source Unknown

Headlines twice the size of the events.

John Galsworthy

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Richard J. Daley

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Charles Dickens

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

Oscar Wilde

The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way. In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.

James Reston

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

Ben Johnson

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.

Earl Warren

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

Evelyn Waugh

All I know is just what I read in the papers.

Will Rogers

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Eli

None loves the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

Arthur Baer

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

Milan Kundera

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Jim Bishop

When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.

Christopher Hitchens

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