Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken with pleasure

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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  • The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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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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