News Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

33 News Quotes
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“But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.”
Jon Stewart Quotes
“The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.”
Robert Mugabe Quotes
“For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don't have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.”
Jon Stewart Quotes
“Media: 99,99% of what happens is not on the news”
Loesje Quotes
“It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.”
Senator John Kerry Quotes
“We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.”
Jon Stewart Quotes
“The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts -- they're paying for it, too.”
Senator John Kerry Quotes
“Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They don’t know they’re being funny.”
Stephen Colbert Quotes
“. . . by evil report and good report . . .”
Bible Quotes
Source: II Corinthians (ch. VI, v. 8)
“As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 25)
“Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Threnodia Augustalis (l. 49)
“Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 223)
“It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes
Source: Commentaries (I Timothy, I, 15)
“Stay a little and news will find you.”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: Jacula Prudentum
“What, what, what, What's the news from Sway? Sad news, Bad news, Comes by the cable; led Through the Indian Ocean's bed, Through the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Med-”
George Thomas Lanigan Quotes
Source: The Akhoond of Swat, written after seeing item "The Akhoond of Swat is dead" in London papers, Jan.
“Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?”
Edward Lear Quotes
Source: The Akhond of Swat
“News, news, news, my gossiping friends, I have wonderful news to tell, A lady by me her compliments sends; And this is the news from Hell!”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes
Source: News
“Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good Walks on crutches.”
Philip Massinger Quotes
Source: Picture (act II, 1)
“For evil news rides post, while good news baits.”
Philip Massinger Quotes
Source: Picture (act II, 1)
“He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 1,350)
“Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear, The good and the bad together: he's friends with Caesar, In state of health, thou say'st, and thou say'st, free.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at II, v)
“Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at II, V)
“Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at II, v)
“(Celia:) Here come Monsieur Le Beau. (Rosalind:) With his mouth full of news. (Celia:) Which he will put on us as pigeons feed their young. (Rosalind:) Then shall we be news-crammed.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Celia & Rosalind at I, ii)
“If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Imogen at III, iv)