Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
“An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
