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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  • Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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  • Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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  • Life is a dead-end street.
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  • Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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  • Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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  • Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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  • 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.
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  • Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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  • Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails.
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  • Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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  • Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
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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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  • Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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  • Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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  • No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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  • No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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  • No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
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  • Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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  • Nothing can come out of the artist that is not in the man.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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