Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
A. J. Liebling
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
A. J. Liebling
Age: 59 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 18
Died: 1963
Died: December 28
Journalist
War Correspondent
New York City
New York
AJ Liebling
A.J. Liebling
A.J Liebling
A J Liebling
Abbott Joseph Liebling
Less
Seldom
Away
Afford
Stills
Department
Still
Carry
Difficulty
Although
Animosities
Politician
Animosity
Principles
Louisiana
More quotes by A. J. Liebling
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
A. J. Liebling
Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
A. J. Liebling
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling
I can write better than anyone who can write faster.
A. J. Liebling
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
A. J. Liebling
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.'
A. J. Liebling
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.)
A. J. Liebling
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
A. J. Liebling
I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.
A. J. Liebling
No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
A. J. Liebling
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.
A. J. Liebling
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
A. J. Liebling
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
A. J. Liebling
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.
A. J. Liebling
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
A. J. Liebling
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.
A. J. Liebling
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.
A. J. Liebling
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
A. J. Liebling
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.
A. J. Liebling
