American public Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American public Bad taste Never underestimate Taste Taste American Underestimate Underestimate Bad
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
You cannot predict public taste. That's why I always just trusted mine. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways. — John Irving Copy Share Image
In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Those who say they (television) give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste, and end by debauching it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me.… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Presidents going live from the Oval Office have used that platform to inform the American public, and also to do one of the most… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The American Public is who I'm interested in. Ultimately, if they think I'm good and they think I'm entertaining that's all that matters. — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care… — Bernardine Dohrn Copy Share Image
We of the soft-crooning radio type of singer are giving the people what they want. The American public as a whole does not care… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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