403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

US  Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 september 1880 och dog den 29 januari 1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
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 Self-respect The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious

 So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is

 Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master

 Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master

 Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives

 Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents

 Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell

 Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.

 Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

 Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body

 That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of t

 The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality

 The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating

 The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages


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