A. J. Liebling Quotes
-
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.
-
Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.
-
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
-
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.
-
You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.
-
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
-
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
-
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.
-
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
-
Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.
-
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
-
I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.
-
Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.
-
The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.
-
I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
-
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
-
It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
-
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.