Best Daily Mail Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: You've Already Arrived

“Don't tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they *ought* to run the country. The Times is read by the people who actually *do* run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who *own* the country. The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by *another* country. The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think it is.' "Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?" "Sun readers don't care *who* runs the country - as long as she's got big tits.”

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Book:Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker

Source: Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker

“Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,” because of his habit of calling everybody a “cunt.”

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Book:The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

Source: The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

“Compton Mackenzie, who is getting quite Scotch (probably from now living so near Glenlivet), gave [Sunset Song] a column in the Daily Mail. The Mail! Oh Goddelpus! I as a good anarcho-communist shrivel up internally.”

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Author:James Leslie Mitchell

“I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.”

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Author:Humphrey Lyttelton

“War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that’s all there is in it.”

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Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

“I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It's a weather forecast from theWestern Daily Mail and it says, in toto: 'Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.”

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Author:Bill Bryson

“You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.”

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Author:Ken Livingstone

“An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.”

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Book:Writing Home

Source: Writing Home

“In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.”

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Author:Ian Hislop

“There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading The Times editorial pages and the Daily Mail sports pages.”

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Author:Lionel Barber

“I'd tax the Daily Mail [if I were a Prime Minister] so high no one could afford to buy it. I hate that paper, I think it's really vicious. I picked one up the other day and every single page is about hate. It's just so negative.”

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Author:Jason Flemyng

“If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.”

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Author:Simon Hoggart

“If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.”

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Author:Ken Livingstone

“What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad.”

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Author:Alastair Campbell

“Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That's not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront.”

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Author:Mallory Ortberg

“3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the Mars bars and hands the last one to the Daily Mail reader He then says " I'd keep an eye on that Asylum seeker, he's after your Mars Bar”

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Author:Christopher Brookmyre

“How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!”

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Author:Tom Baker

“The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.”

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Author:Chris Cleave