21 Quotations by Henry Louis Mencken
- 1. A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live ...

- 2. Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

- 3. Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.

- 4. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.

- 5. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

- 6. Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

- 7. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and ha ...

- 8. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin sl ...

- 9. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing

- 10. For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

- 11. It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

- 12. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

- 13. Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

- 14. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

- 15. No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

- 16. The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

- 17. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

- 18. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

- 19. There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.

- 20. Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

Henry Louis Mencken Quotes by Power Quotations
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