Quotes about H L Mencken

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

#H L Mencken

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience...

#H L Mencken

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably...

#H L Mencken

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

#H L Mencken

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both...

#H L Mencken

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

#H L Mencken

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a...

#H L Mencken

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is...

#H L Mencken

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which...

#H L Mencken

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

#H L Mencken

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because...

#H L Mencken

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

#H L Mencken