H. L. Mencken1880–1956The quotations of
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer
1880–1956
63 quotes, most often on Government, Politics and Clever Jabs. Part of the Writers collection.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956)Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Prejudices, Second Series (1920) Ch. 1For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956), 13A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)- On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1920-1936), p. 279
- Minority Report : H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956), 412
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 3Self-respect — The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
