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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken |
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Quotes By author - Starting with H - H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken
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There are 173 quotes for the author H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Cynicism
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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Conscience
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Laws
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Knowledge
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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Quotations
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Opinions
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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Democracy
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All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
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Miscellaneous
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Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
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Miscellaneous
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
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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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Miscellaneous
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Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Music
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Government
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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Government
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Miscellaneous
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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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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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Miscellaneous
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
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Miscellaneous
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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