"Historian: an unsuccessful novelist." — H. L. Mencken
"Historian: an unsuccessful novelist."
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H. L. Mencken
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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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More Historian Quotes
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one of 449 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old…
— Buffalo Bill
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the…
— Dan Brown
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
— George W. Bush
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
— Samuel Butler
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of…
— Michael N. Castle
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community…
— John Henrik Clarke
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It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does…
— Chuck Close
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats…
— Stephen Ambrose
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native…
— U Thant
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher…
— H.G. Wells
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