Abbott Joseph "A. J." Liebling was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death.
“Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.”
“Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.”
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
“What a madly gay little wine, my dear!" M. Cliquot said, repressing, but not soon enough, a grimace of pain. "One would say a Tavel of a good year," I cried, "if one were a complete bloody fool." I did not say the second clause aloud.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.”
“... in the youth of middle age--square-shouldered, stocky, decisive, blatantly virile-- ...”
“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”
“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and i can write faster than anybody who can write better.”