"The opera is to music what a bawdy…" — H. L. Mencken
"The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral."
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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 Bawdy Quotes
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one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy,…
— Lord Byron
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We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in…
— Camille Paglia
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Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written…
— Unknown Author
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I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
— Betty White
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Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You…
— Betty White
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Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a…
— Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a…
— Harry S. Truman
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I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a…
— Loretta Chase
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Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the…
— Steven Pinker
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It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them…
— Russell Brand
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We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
— Karen Maitland
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I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
— Betty White
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