Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent...

#Religion

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty,...

#Religion

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its...

#Religion

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

#Women

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

#Bachelors, #Women

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

#Women

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras...

#Women

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry...

#Bachelors, #Women

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach...

#Women

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

#Women

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the...

#Happiness, #Impulses

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and...

#Women