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Letter "H" » Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«The great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
artists, ordinarily, Puritans, respectable
«It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.»
«It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
actual, actual sin, bachelor, celibacy, permitted, regards
«Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.»
«The major contribution of Protestant thought to the knowledge of mankind is its massive proof that God is a bore»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
bore, contribution, major, massive, proof, Protestant, Protestants, The Knowledge
«Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?»
«A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
drank, prohibitionist, prohibitionists, sort of
«The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous»
«Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead»
«But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus»
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