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World Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the…
- The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so…
- It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
- New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction…
- The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is…
- The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the…
- What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively,…
- There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level…
- The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -…
- 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,…
- The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an…
- The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
- What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from…
- Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
- Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
- You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
- Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
- The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries…
- As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those…
- If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
- This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
- 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…
- Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
- Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings…
- Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach