A. J. Liebling Quotes


"The way to write is well, and how is your own business."
- A. J. Liebling
(Related: Business)

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."
- A. J. Liebling
(Related: People, News, Newspapers)

"If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior."
- A. J. Liebling
"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."
- A. J. Liebling
(Related: Money, Society, Press)

"Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place."
- A. J. Liebling
(Related: Chicago)

"An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed."
- A. J. Liebling
(Related: Food, American, Blind, Leading, Teaching)

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling
"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."
- A. J. Liebling
(Related: Bed, Democracy, Grave, Press)