Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and...

#America And Americans, #Chicago, #Cities

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

#Conscience

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends

#Conscience

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and...

#America And Americans, #Day

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full...

#Common Sense, #Day, #Schools

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that...

#Existence

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

#Expectation

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he...

#Failure

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

#Foolishness

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents

#Giving

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

#Golf

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the...

#Goodbye