The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties — H. L. Mencken Certainties Copy Share Image
Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work. — H. L. Mencken Complex problems Copy Share Image
For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United… — H. L. Mencken Newcomers Copy Share Image
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right. — H. L. Mencken Controversial Copy Share Image
No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a… — H. L. Mencken Brain Copy Share Image
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White… — H. L. Mencken Day Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn… — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from… — H. L. Mencken Great man Copy Share Image
I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There… — H. L. Mencken Character Copy Share Image
The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to… — H. L. Mencken Absurd Copy Share Image
The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of… — H. L. Mencken Art Copy Share Image
Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues,… — H. L. Mencken Actors Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, it is the Christian theory that it is only a regard for this Being -- partly a trembling fear and partly… — H. L. Mencken Common decency Copy Share Image
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. — H. L. Mencken Character Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public — H. L. Mencken American public Copy Share Image
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