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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
in-law, Mother in Law
«When women kiss, it always reminds one of prizefighters shaking hands»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Kissing,
Women
| Keywords:
reminds, shaking
«Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting»
«Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Suicide
| Keywords:
acquiescence, belated, relatives
«When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Goodbye
| Keywords:
Against Me, converted, farewell, mount, say farewell, scaffold, sheriff, sheriffs, The Scaffold
«It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
billiard, billiards, Goethe
«On both sides of the Reformation fence the Christian church fought for its life, and nearly everywhere it had the support of the universities, which is to say, of official learning, which is to say, of organized ignorance»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
official, re-formation, reformation, The Reformation, universities
«The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high-school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid v»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
boob, celluloid, designer, designers, evangelist, Evangelists, Hillbillies, hillbilly, janitor, jumper, jumpers, prohibitionist, prohibitionists
«What ass first let lose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Looking back over my 19 years (of it) I can recall few times when I have voted with anything approaching exhilaration»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
approaching, boon, exhilaration, recall, suffrage, voted
«I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
After Dark, daylight, daylights, I made it
