Best H. L. Mencken Lines
- Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste. Fellow
- The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman. Begged
- How do they taste? They taste like more. Food
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of… Any
- The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of… All
- In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars. All
- Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. Almost Always
- A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved… Bandages
- Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people. Cynical
- Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are… All
- It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup,… Abyss
- Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man… All
- The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign… Accept
- The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -… Art
- All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to… Actually Offer
- In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that… All
- A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. Any
- The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. Believe
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… Affects
- Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. Always Distrusts
- The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed… Absorbed
- A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation. Gentleman
- Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure… Advance
- The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy,… Course
- Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar. Burglar
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