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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Temptation
| Keywords:
at work, irresistible, Irresistible Force, movable, work on
«Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Autobiography,
Literature
| Keywords:
autobiographies, recall
«And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught everything save that which is true, and outfitted with every trick save those that are socially useful»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Teenage
| Keywords:
adolescents, outfits, outfitted, pedagogy, procession, processions, schoolhouse, Schoolhouses, socially, The Standard, trick, vomited, vomiting, vomit up
«It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or of the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
African, Africans, gospel, intent, pretends, savage, tent
«If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.»
«Adultery is the application of democracy to love»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Adultery,
Sin
| Keywords:
adultery, application
«It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Giving
| Keywords:
for example, presents, wedding
«It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Being a Woman
| Keywords:
Catholic, chemistry, forbidden, lawful, physics, pregnancies, pregnancy, resort, resort to
«Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
auction, auction sale, broker, brokers, election, goods, pillage, pillaging, sale, stolen
«The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
agony, ash, atom, chunk, chunks, heap, ponderable, represents, roasting, seeker, The Seekers, toil
