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Henry Louis Mencken

| Quotations: 58 | Pages: 6

Quotations by Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) | writer


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Celebrities
by Henry Louis Mencken

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Cynicism
by Henry Louis Mencken

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Unsorted
by Henry Louis Mencken

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

Laws
by Henry Louis Mencken

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

Poetry
by Henry Louis Mencken

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

Quotations
by Henry Louis Mencken

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

Lies
by Henry Louis Mencken

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Journalism
by Henry Louis Mencken

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by deno ...

Unsorted
by Henry Louis Mencken

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to ...

Idealism
by Henry Louis Mencken

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.


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