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Love Quotes by H. L. Mencken

51 Love quotes by H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken compares love to war, easy to start but hard to stop, and points out that men’s love dies hard while women’s stays dead. He jokes that there is no record of a happy philosopher, suggesting love often clashes with reason. He also criticizes those who avoid love for the sake of decorum.

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The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.

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Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

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Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.

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He who eats alone chokes alone.

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It is only doubt that creates.

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I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

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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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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for…

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The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

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No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for…

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

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No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid…

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Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

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Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the…

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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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The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

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The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from…

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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of…

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It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age…

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The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special…

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience…

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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.…

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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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Wherever I sit is the head of the table.

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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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How do they taste? They taste like more.

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Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.

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Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

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He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

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I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

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The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

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Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop

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Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

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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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To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue…

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not…