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Letter "H" » Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
an American, attorney, attorneys, congressman, congressmen, district, districts, district attorney, jealous, liberties, promoted, The District, Washington
«Try to imagine a Shakespeare beset by fundamentalism, or a Goethe trying to work with the Ku Klux Klan roaring under his door»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
beset, besets, besetting, fundamentalism, Goethe, Klan, Ku Klux Klan, roaring
«The lunatic fringe wags the underdog»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
fringe, fringed, fringes, lunatic, underdog, underdogs, wags
«A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
a couple of, baptism, campaign, circus, hangings, political campaign
«The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Newspapers
| Keywords:
competition, Meet The, newspapers, papers, radio
«The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
bandit, bandits, caste, castes, Party of, patriots, The Military
«Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
characteristic, concluded, Nietzsche, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, questioned, tendency, unchanged, wherefore
«Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.»
«Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it»
«A celebrity is one who is known by many people he is glad he doesn't know»
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