Quotes by 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

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