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Famous quotes by Editors

Editors shape the stories we read and the conversations we have, balancing clarity, accuracy, and voice. This collection highlights insights from editors across newsrooms, magazines, and digital platforms, revealing how they navigate deadlines, mentor writers, and uphold ethical standards. Whether you are a professional, a student, or simply curious about how ideas move from draft to publication, these perspectives offer guidance and inspiration. Explore their reflections on decision-making, collaboration, and the quiet craft that turns raw facts into compelling narratives.
"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"
Mary H. Waldrip, Editor
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"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character"
Horace Greeley, Editor
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"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"
Denis Diderot, Editor
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"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections"
Meg Greenfield, Editor
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"Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old"
Mary H. Waldrip, Editor
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"A laugh is a smile that bursts"
Mary H. Waldrip, Editor
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination"
Denis Diderot, Editor
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"I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity"
Diana Vreeland, Editor
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"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things"
Denis Diderot, Editor
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"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all"
Denis Diderot, Editor
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"When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time"
Edgar Watson Howe, Editor
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"Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere"
Helen Gurley Brown, Editor
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"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!"
William Allen White, Editor
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity"
Irving Kristol, Editor
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"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair"
Herbert Bayard Swope, Editor
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"When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high"
Mary H. Waldrip, Editor
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"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common"
Denis Diderot, Editor
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"Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy"
Denis Diderot, Editor
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"Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one"
Horace Greeley, Editor
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"Common sense is very uncommon"
Horace Greeley, Editor
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"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote"
George Jean Nathan, Editor
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"Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising"
Edgar Watson Howe, Editor
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"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it"
Diana Vreeland, Editor
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"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money"
Helen Gurley Brown, Editor
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"Peace without justice is tyranny"
William Allen White, Editor
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"To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life"
Henry R. Luce, Editor
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"Journalism is in fact history on the run"
Thomas Griffith, Editor
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"Memory … is the diary we all carry about with us"
Mary H. Waldrip, Editor
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"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him"
Denis Diderot, Editor
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"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers"
Denis Diderot, Editor
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