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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  • Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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  • On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
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  • One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
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  • One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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  • Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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  • Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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  • Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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  • Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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  • Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
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  • Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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  • Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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  • Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
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  • Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
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  • Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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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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  • The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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  • The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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  • The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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  • The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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  • The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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