Quotes by H L Mencken

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe...

#Truth

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she...

#Truth

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know...

#Truth

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the...

#Intelligence

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

#Love, #Teen Love

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

#Famous Love, #Love

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it...

#Love, #Pleasure

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms...

#Love, #Pleasure

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

#H L Mencken

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag...

#H L Mencken

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good...

#H L Mencken

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to...

#H L Mencken