Books Quote by Mary C. Ames

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a…

— H. L. Mencken

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles…

— Charles Spurgeon

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

— Colm Toibin

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a…

— Henry Louis Mencken

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

— John Lubbock

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

— Jill Abramson

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with…

— Oscar Wilde

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even…

— Thomas Jefferson

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

— Norman Mailer

“Newspapers are not made any longer by news or journalism. They are made by sheer weight of money expressed in free gift schemes. They…

— Oswald Mosley