| 56 Famous Quotes by H. L. Mencken
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“The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.”
Justice Quotes |
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“Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.”
Love Quotes |
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“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”
Military Quotes |
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“Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.”
Morals Quotes |
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“Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.”
Temptations Quotes |
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“Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.”
Conscience Quotes |
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“It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.”
Evil Quotes |
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“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”
Heroism Quotes |
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“Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.”
Occupation Quotes |
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“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
Religion Quotes |
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
Age Quotes |
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“I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.”
Communism Quotes |
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“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
Conscience Quotes |
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“The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.”
Court Quotes |
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“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
Cynic Quotes |
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“Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.”
Decency Quotes |
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“Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.”
Democracy Quotes |
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“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.”
Difference Quotes |
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“On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.”
Distrust Quotes |
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“Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.”
Doubt Quotes |
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“The more a man dreams, the less he believes.”
Dream Quotes |
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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
Faith Quotes |
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“Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.”
Fame Quotes |
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H. L. Mencken Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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