403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken föddes den September 12th 1880 och dog den 29 January 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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