News

News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.

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• Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound,
  And news much older than their ale went round.
  • Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 223.

• Stay a little, and news will find you.
  • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).

• He's gone, and who knows how he may report
  Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
  • John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671), line 1,350.

• For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
  • John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671), line 1,538.

• Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,
  That long time have been barren.
  • William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 5, line 24.

• Prithee, friend,
  Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,
  The good and bad together.
  • William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 5, line 53.

• Though it be honest, it is never good
  To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
  An host of tongues; but, let ill tidings tell
  Themselves when they be felt.
  • William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 5, line 85.

• Here comes Monsieur le Beau
  With his mouth full of news,
  Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young.
  Then shall we be news-crammed.
  • William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act I, scene 2, line 96.

• If it be summer news,
  Smile to 't before: if winterly, thou need'st
  But keep that countenance still.
  • William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 4, line 12.

• There's villainous news abroad.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act II, scene 4, line 365.

• Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
  Hath but a losing office; and his tongue
  Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
  Remember'd tolling a departed friend.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act I, scene 1, line 100.

• And tidings do I bring, and lucky joys,
  And golden times, and happy news of price
  I pr'ythee now, deliver them like a man of the world.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act V, scene 3, line 101.

• I drown'd these news in tears.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act II, scene 1, line 104.

• News fitting to the night,
  Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible.
  • William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act V, scene 6, line 19.

• My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
  Which holds but till thy news be uttered.
  • William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act V, scene 7, line 55.

• Master, master! news, old news, and such news as you never heard of!
  • William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act III, scene 2, line 30.

• How goes it now, sir? this news which is called true is so like an old tale, that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.
  • William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act V, scene 2, line 25.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 553-54.

• By evil report and good report
  • II Corinthians, VI. 8.

• Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
  • John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, line 49.

• It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true.
  • Matthew Henry, Commentaries, I Timothy. I. 15.

• What, what, what,
  What's the news from Swat?
  Sad news,
  Bad news,
  Comes by the cable; led
  Through the Indian Ocean's bed,
  Through the Persian Gulf, the Red
  Sea, and the Med-
  Iterranean—he's dead;
  The Akhoond is dead.
  • George Thomas Lanigan, The Akhoond of Swat; written after seeing the item in the London papers (Jan. 22, 1878), "The Akhoond of Swat is dead".

• Who, or why, or which, or what,
  Is the Akhond of Swat?
  • Edward Lear, The Akhond of Swat.

• Ill news, madam,
  Are swallow-winged, but what's good
  Walks on crutches.
  • Philip Massinger, Picture, Act II. 1.

• News, news, news, my gossiping friends,
  I have wonderful news to tell,
  A lady by me her compliments sends;
  And this is the news from Hell!
  • Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), News.

• As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
  • Proverbs, XXV. 25.

• Ce n'est pas un événement, c'est une nouvelle.
  • It is not an event, it is a piece of news.
  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, on hearing of Napoleon's death.