"Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone." — H. L. Mencken

More Discreditable Quotes

This quote is filed under Discreditable Quotes, one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other… — Christian Nestell Bovee
• There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of… — Aldous Huxley
• Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,'… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class,… — Benjamin Disraeli
• Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably… — G. H. Hardy
• The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the… — Kenny Smith
• Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues… — Arnold J. Toynbee
• plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence. — Ambrose Bierce
• The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even… — H. L. Mencken
• One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events,… — H. L. Mencken
• I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of… — Dylan Thomas

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