A. J. Liebling Quotes

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.

Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

The subject [of Stalin's death] permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation—both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents—and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.

You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

As a result of its generous stand [Robert Maynard Hutchins’ controversial policy of admitting students after their second year of high-school], the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children’s Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins…playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.