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Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken

American journalist and critic

Lived from: 1880 - 1956

Category: Media Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 12 september 1880 Died: 29 january 1956

  • Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
  • A bachelor is one who wants a wife, but is glad he hasn't got her.
  • Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
  • A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
  • Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
  • The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
  • A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
  • All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
  • The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
  • The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
  • For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
  • The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
  • There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
  • The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
  • On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
  • Time stays, we go.
  • One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
  • It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
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  • A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
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  • All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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  • Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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  • Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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  • Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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  • Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
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  • It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
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  • Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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  • Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
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  • On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
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  • There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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  • What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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  • Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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  • Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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What are the most famous quotes from Henry Louis Mencken?

The two most famous quotes from Henry Louis Mencken are:

  • "A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men."
  • "All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."

When did Henry Louis Mencken live?

Henry Louis Mencken was born in 1880 and died in the year 1956.