Cynical Quote by H. L. Mencken

The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!

— William Shirley

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

— Terry Pratchett

It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast…

— H. L. Mencken

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is…

— H. L. Mencken

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

— H. L. Mencken

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

— H. L. Mencken

Sensible people find nothing useless.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures…

— Stephen Leacock

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

— Samuel Butler

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and…

— Barry Hughart

We need sensible people in the system, who are honest and passionate about the country and will not fall pray to corruption.

— Manini Mishra

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

— W. H. Auden