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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  • The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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  • The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
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  • The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
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  • The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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  • 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.
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  • The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
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  • The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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  • The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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  • The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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  • The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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  • The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
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  • The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
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  • The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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  • 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.
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  • The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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  • The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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  • The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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  • The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
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  • The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
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  • The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
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