Quotes about H L Mencken

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and...

#H L Mencken

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

#H L Mencken

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very...

#H L Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous...

#H L Mencken

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to...

#H L Mencken

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were...

#H L Mencken

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

#H L Mencken

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think...

#H L Mencken

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true....

#H L Mencken

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

#H L Mencken

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on...

#H L Mencken

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than...

#H L Mencken