H. L. Mencken quotes

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. (H. L. Mencken)
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. Mencken
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
H. L. Mencken
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. (H. L. Mencken)
Theology --An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
H. L. Mencken
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
Creator - A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
H. L. Mencken
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H. L. Mencken
Misogynist - A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
H. L. Mencken
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. (H. L. Mencken)
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken
Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
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