Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers...

#Famous Love, #Love

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one...

#Confidence

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was...

#Christianity

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business...

#Christianity

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

#Failure, #Religion, #Theory

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the...

#Business

He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation

#Business, #Work

Change is not progress

#Change

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake...

#Love

Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist

#Living

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such...

#Lies, #Science

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown,...

#Fear