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Plain Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,…
- A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit…
- The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow…
- On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be…
- No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me…
- The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to…
- No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever…
More Plain Quotes
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. — Francis Bacon
- How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
- The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. — Sholom Aleichem
- Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. — Muhammad Ali
- Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. — Anton Chekhov
- That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you… — Harlan Coben
- Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. — Maya Angelou
- The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton