257 Quotations by H. L. Mencken
- 201. The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
- 202. The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spend ...
- 203. The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spend ...
- 204. The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
- 205. The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief ...
- 206. The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation ...
- 207. The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craf ...
- 208. The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be ...
- 209. The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- 210. The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear -- fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexp ...
- 211. The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear -- fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexp ...
- 212. The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
- 213. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
- 214. The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
- 215. The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the ...
- 216. The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certaint ...
- 217. The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion ...
- 218. The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as s ...
- 219. The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundre ...
- 220. The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essential ...
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