Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Learned
Doomed
Millionaires
Almost
Experiments
Hypothetical
Rich
Table
Client
Might
Tables
Ordered
Dilettante
Even
Price
Millionaire
Dilettantes
Never
Wine
Adolescence
Impelled
Would
Higher
Clients
Listed
Men
Stupid
Experiment
Wines

More quotes by A. J. Liebling

Image
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
A. J. Liebling
Image
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
A. J. Liebling
Image
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.
A. J. Liebling
Image
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.
A. J. Liebling
Image
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
A. J. Liebling
Image
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
Image
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
Image
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
A. J. Liebling
Image
A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
A. J. Liebling
Image
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
Image
No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
A. J. Liebling
Image
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.
A. J. Liebling
Image
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
A. J. Liebling
Image
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
A. J. Liebling
Image
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
A. J. Liebling
Image
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
A. J. Liebling
Image
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