Quotes About Fourth Estate

#1. Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.

Mervyn Peake

#2. Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation

Tony Benn

#3. Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

Julian Baggini

#4. The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.

Anne Frank

#5. To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

Ken Adam

#6. News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowler

#7. I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!

Louise Hay

#8. Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvellous plasticity of mind.

Jacob Bronowski

#9. Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. A good plot is like a dream.

Roald Dahl

#11. The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

Edmund Burke

#13. As you bloom in new seasons, you must get down on your hands and knees, take a closer look and bravely remove the weeds.

Katandra Jackson Nunnally

#14. The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#15. I had to leave my debit card at home when I went into a bookstore or else I would drain my account.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#16. Dizzied, thrilled, depressed by remembering ...

Roberto Bolano

#17. (Exchange with Winston Churchill)
Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which the Lady Astor retorted, "Sir, you are not handsome enough to have such fears".

Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

#18. The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare

Martin Esslin

#19. A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Carlyle

#21. None of our political writers ... take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons ... passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community ... the Mob.

Henry Fielding