64 Quotes by 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.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

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.

Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

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.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

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

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.