Daily Mail Quotes

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

  Simon Hoggart

  Class, Misery, Imagine

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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

  Stephen Fry

  Mail, Despise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Alastair Campbell

  Jobs, Independent, Cutting

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• 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.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Reading, White, Attention

  Source: www.slate.com

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

  Chris Cleave

  Criminals, Asylum Seekers, Asylums

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• 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

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Eye, Islands, Hands

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Trying, Warfare, Noses

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• 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.

  Jason Flemyng

  Hate, Thinking, Negative

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• 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.

  Lionel Barber

  Sports, Coffee, Reading

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• 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.

  Ian Hislop

  People, Bears, Bans

  "Have I Got News for You". Comedy, Game-Show, October 11, 2013.

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• 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.

  Alan Bennett

  Should, Centre, Articles

  Alan Bennett (2007). “Writing Home”, p.160, Macmillan

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• 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!

  Tom Baker

  Politician, Journalist, Happens

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• 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.

  Bill Bryson

  Rain, Weather, Mail

  1995 Notes from a Small Island.

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• 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.

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

  Real, War, Eggs

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

  Humphrey Lyttelton

  Journalism, Fringe, Cartoonist

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Groups, Treats, Members

  "Livingstone Fails to Get Disrepute Charge Dropped". www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2005.

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