"A gentlemen is one who never strikes a……" — H. L. Mencken
"A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation."
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
— Walter Bagehot
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a…
— Otto von Bismarck
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and…
— Malin Akerman
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In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my…
— Carol Burnett
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,…
— Lord Byron
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
— Nick Cave
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
— Fred Allen
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a…
— Raymond Chandler
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
— Charlie Chaplin
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