I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy — A. J. Liebling Bed 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 Bottles 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 only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business. — A. J. Liebling Way 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
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
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
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 Be confident 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
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
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
Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned… — A. J. Liebling Adolescence Copy Share Image
The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a… — A. J. Liebling Assistants 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 Breeding 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
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
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 American Copy Share Image
