Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

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

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  • A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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  • Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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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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  • An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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  • Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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  • As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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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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  • Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.
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  • But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
    In Defense of Women (1918)
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  • Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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  • Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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  • Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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  • Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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  • Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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  • Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
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  • Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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  • Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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  • Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
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  • Every bachelor is a hero to some married woman.
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  • Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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