For every subtle and complicated question, there is a…

“For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. —”

— David Graeber

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong. — H. L. MENCKEN Not”

— Ted Koppel

“A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.”

— Loren Weisman

That one teacher who makes you feel like a COMPLETE idiot when you get an answer wrong.

— Anonymous

He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would…

— John Derbyshire

“Puritanism,” wrote H.L. Mencken, whose lifetime spanned the first progressive era, is the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.” Who”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“To be attacked by a Gore Vidal, or an H.L. Mencken, one of the great wordsmiths of American criticism, while surely unpleasant, must have…

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

“In Mencken’s view, “religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is…

— H.L. Mencken

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This…

— George R. R. Martin

H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion,…

— Ben Hecht

“What Mencken most strongly objected to in religion was not the expression of nonsensical views—these could easily be combated by rebuttal from the other…

— H.L. Mencken

“Puritanism—the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. —H. L. Mencken (1949)”

— Kenneth C. Davis

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

— Maxwell Bodenheim

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN”

— Frank I. Luntz

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

— John Tuley