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H. L. Mencken Quotes

H. L. Mencken quotes about men

American Writer September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956

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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating. H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken quote: "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they..."
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken quote: "I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are..."
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. H. L. Mencken
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by... H. L. Mencken
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. H. L. Mencken
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. H. L. Mencken
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. H. L. Mencken
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken quote: "To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much..."
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken quote: "What men value in this world is not rights but privileges."
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken quote: "All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that..."
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H. L. Mencken
...an author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression. H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken quote: "Honor is simply the morality of superior men."
Honor is simply the morality of superior men. H. L. Mencken

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