Quotes about H L Mencken

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

#H L Mencken

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

#H L Mencken

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough...

#H L Mencken

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

#H L Mencken

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

#H L Mencken

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

#H L Mencken

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the...

#H L Mencken

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity...

#H L Mencken

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

#H L Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

#H L Mencken

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the...

#H L Mencken

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque...

#H L Mencken