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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
in proportion to, readiness, willingness
«Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Injustice
| Keywords:
injustice, relatively, stinging, stings
«I can only imagine very stupid people looking at it (Television)»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
looking at, television
«It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Trust
| Keywords:
after all, naturally, reconcile, reconciles, reconciling, trustful
«In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
assumed, assumption, brief, correct, imbecility, in brief, the point, to the point, vain
«How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cockroach, Cockroaches, pebble, shoe, spaghetti, unbearable
«One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Animals,
Laughter
| Keywords:
one-horse, syllogism, syllogisms, ten thousand, vastly
«A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
anywhere, compromised, compromises, compromising, dishonourable, humiliations, indistinguishable, near, office, politician, professional, professionally, streetwalker, submit, submitting, The Professionals