Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

H. L. Mencken

Read through the most famous quotes from 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


#black #every #flag #hands #his

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.


— H. L. Mencken


#depart #ever #eye #forgive #ghost

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.


— H. L. Mencken


#good #honest #politician #quite #unthinkable

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


— H. L. Mencken


#coffin #cynic #flowers #looks #man

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.


— H. L. Mencken


#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.


— H. L. Mencken


#briefly #defined #faith #illogical #improbable

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


#hard #his #know #lie #man

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.


— H. L. Mencken


#every #every man #free #giving #good

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.


— H. L. Mencken


#begin #easy #hard #like #love is

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.


— H. L. Mencken


#ape #average #believe #descended #even






About H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken Quotes




Did you know about H. L. Mencken?

The marriage made national headlines and many were surprised that Mencken who once called marriage "the end of hope" and who was well known for mocking relations between the sexes had gone to the altar. In 1926 he deliberately had himself arrested for selling an issue of The American Mercury that was banned in Boston under the Comstock laws.

A keen cheerleader of scientific progress he was very skeptical of economic theories and particularly critical of anti-intellectualism bigotry populism fundamentalist Christianity creationism organized religion the existence of God and osteopathic/chiropractic medicine. Henry Louis "H. During and after World War I he was sympathetic to the Germans and was very distrustful of British propaganda.

back to top