H. L. Mencken
69 quotations
It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Time stays, we go.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.