Henry Louis Mencken Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

40 Famous Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
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“The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.”
Theory Quotes
“Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.”
Thinking Quotes
“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”
Voting Quotes
“Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.”
Writing Quotes
“Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”
Music Quotes
“Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.”
Bachelors Quotes
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
Cynicism Quotes
“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.”
Fame Quotes
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
Government Quotes
“Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.”
Government Quotes
“The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.”
Government Quotes
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
Taste Quotes
“A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.”
Blame Quotes
“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.”
Women Quotes
“A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
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