Imagine Quotes by H. L. Mencken

11 Imagine quotes by H. L. Mencken

Mencken’s sharp wit shines in these eleven brief remarks on how imagination can both expose and mask societal flaws. A succinct, tongue‑in‑cheek look for readers who enjoy his cynical humor.

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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

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I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a…

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine…

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The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so…

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The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists.…

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Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues,…

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I am never much interested in the effects of what I write…I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two…

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The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.…

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The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,…

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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the…

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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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