"Whenever A annoys or injures B on the……" — H. L. Mencken

"Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel."

— H. L. Mencken

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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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 Annoying Quotes

This quote is filed under Annoying Quotes, one of 662 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me. — John Bonham
It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality… — Bono
At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that… — Bono
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status:… — Alain de Botton
It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make… — Jo Brand
I'm aware that I can be annoying. — Sandra Bullock
The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running,… — Jason Aldean
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. — Fred Allen
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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