Quote by H.L. Mencken

“Suffice it to say that the vile arts of the hussy prevailed over that noble and upright man—that she enticed him, by adroit appeals…

— H.L. Mencken

“I can't recall a single masculine figure created by a woman who is not, at bottom, a booby.”

— H.L. Mencken

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious…

— H.L. Mencken

“If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he [Harry Truman] would have promised to provide them with free missionaries,…

— H.L. Mencken

“I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much too much of the worse horrors of peace.”

— H.L. Mencken

“Don’t tell me. I have been there. No longer ago than last Tuesday—or was it last Monday?—I went into one of those big restaurants…

— H.L. Mencken

“ONE OF the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.…

— H.L. Mencken

“But though every normal man thus cherishes the soothing unction that he is the intellectual superior of all women, and particularly of his wife,…

— H.L. Mencken

“If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so…

— H.L. Mencken

“The American moron’s mind simply does not run in that direction; he wants to keep his Ford, even at the cost of losing the…

— H.L. Mencken

“Once I ventured the guess that men worked in response to a vague inner urge for self-expression. But that was probably a shaky theory,…

— H.L. Mencken

“He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered…

— H.L. Mencken