Oscar Wilde: And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what t

And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they alway — Oscar Wilde

And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrade — Oscar Wilde
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. — Oscar Wilde
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to — Oscar Wilde
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. — Oscar Wilde
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not on — Arthur Schopenhauer
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of ed — Samuel Butler
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereign — Napoleon
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for — George Bernard Shaw
Considerations on the Government of Poland — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much t — Attributed to Josh Billings
They live that they may eat, but he himself eats that he may live. — Athenæus
Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas — Samuel Butler