Quotes by H. L. Mencken
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
- H. L. Mencken
Self- respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
- H.L. Mencken
Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian – and at once the world becomes explicable.
- H. L. Mencken
Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
- H.L. Mencken
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
― H.L. Mencken
Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
- H. L. Mencken