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Bad Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.
- Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to…
- 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,…
- The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.
- It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of…
- To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as…
- A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.
- The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
- No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old,…
- A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
- I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures…
- The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country…
- The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling…
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- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
- Bad men are full of repentance. — Aristotle
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. — Frank Abagnale
- People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it… — David Arquette
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe