"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is……" — H. L. Mencken
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
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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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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things…
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
— George Bancroft
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
— Arnold Bennett
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an…
— Thomas Carlyle
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
— Lewis Carroll
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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