List of A. J. Liebling Quotes

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.

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.

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

Chicago Seems A Big City Instead Of Merely A Large Place.

Southern Political Personalities, Like Sweet Corn, Travel Badly. They Lose Flavor With Every Hundred Yards Away From The Patch. By The Time They Reach New York, They Are Like Golden Bantam That Has Been Trucked Up From Texas - Stale And Unprofitable. The Consumer Forgets That The Corn Tastes Different Where It Grows.

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.)

If The First Requisite For Writing Well About Food Is A Good Appetite, The Second Is To Put In Your Apprenticeship As A Feeder When You Have Enough Money To Pay The Check But Not Enough To Produce Indifference Of The Total.

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.

I Used To Be Shy About Ordering A Steak After I Had Eaten A Steak Sandwich, But I Got Used To It.

A City With One Newspaper... Is Like A Man With One Eye, And Often The Eye Is Glass.

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.

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.