The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

Topics: Women Quotes

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and...

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and...

Adultery is the application of democracy to love

Adultery is the application of democracy to love

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply...

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply...

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras...

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras...

He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation

He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation

Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to...

Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to...

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really...

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really...

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would...

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would...

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be...

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be...

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by...

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by...

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable...

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable...

The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks...

The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks...

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no...

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no...

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out...

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out...

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they...

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they...

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it...

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it...

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which...

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which...