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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