A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation. — H. L. Mencken Gentleman Copy Share Image
The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring. — H. L. Mencken Achievement Copy Share Image
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. — H. L. Mencken Character Copy Share Image
Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins. — H. L. Mencken Belief Copy Share Image
Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. — H. L. Mencken Effort Copy Share Image
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of… — H. L. Mencken Art Copy Share Image
He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite. — H. L. Mencken American history Copy Share Image
The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his… — H. L. Mencken Advantage Copy Share Image
No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under… — H. L. Mencken Civil rights Copy Share Image
The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think… — H. L. Mencken Acting Copy Share Image
The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running… — H. L. Mencken Army Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Certainty Copy Share Image
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence, it is almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy… — H. L. Mencken American democracy Copy Share Image
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be… — H. L. Mencken America Copy Share Image
Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in… — H. L. Mencken Analysis Copy Share Image
As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom.… — H. L. Mencken Extremes Copy Share Image
“When difficulties confront him he no longer blames them upon the inscrutable enmity of remote and ineffable powers; he blames them upon… — H. L. Mencken Building blocks Copy Share Image
The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to… — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do… — H. L. Mencken Belief Copy Share Image
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain, — H. L. Mencken Alcohol Copy Share Image
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.” — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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