"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but……" — H. L. Mencken
"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."
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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 Charm Quotes
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one of 826 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us…
— Teresa of Avila
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was…
— Kate Beckinsale
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There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result…
— Annie Besant
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
— Erma Bombeck
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
— Anita Brookner
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven,…
— Akhenaton
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of…
— John Buchan
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A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the…
— Sandra Bullock
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