He man Quotes by H. L. Mencken

16 He man quotes by H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken’s commentary on the 'He man' motif arrives in a compact group of 16 lines, each delivering his characteristic sarcasm and keen observation. It provides a quick, incisive glimpse into his skeptical perspective.

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It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

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The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

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Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely…

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The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of…

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A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United…

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The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a…

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Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking…

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A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so…

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The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not…

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At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian…

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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way…

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The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry:…

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When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men…

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The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's…

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By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.…

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Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.

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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

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For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must…

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There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend…

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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

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Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…

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