I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business. — A. J. Liebling Business Copy Share Image
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. — A. J. Liebling Blind Copy Share Image
A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass. — A. J. Liebling Cities Copy Share Image
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. — A. J. Liebling Journalism Copy Share Image
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. — A. J. Liebling Ecstasy Copy Share Image
A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty… — A. J. Liebling Animosity Copy Share Image
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one… — A. J. Liebling City Copy Share Image
I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to… — A. J. Liebling Adultery Copy Share Image
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time… — A. J. Liebling Consumers Copy Share Image
I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of… — A. J. Liebling Combat Copy Share Image
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as… — A. J. Liebling Appetite Copy Share Image
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted… — A. J. Liebling Appetite Copy Share Image
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one… — A. J. Liebling Boston Copy Share Image
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have… — A. J. Liebling Appetite Copy Share Image
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him… — A. J. Liebling Beauty Copy Share Image
News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. — A. J. Liebling Freedom Copy Share Image
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. — A. J. Liebling Journalism Copy Share Image
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection. — A. J. Liebling Awe Copy Share Image
The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think… — A. J. Liebling Country Copy Share Image
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it. — A. J. Liebling Food Copy Share Image
Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground… — A. J. Liebling Dawn Copy Share Image
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him… — A. J. Liebling Beauty Copy Share Image
