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H. L. Mencken Quotes - Page 32

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All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

Jobs, Successful, Helping

"Prejudices, First Series" by H. L. Mencken, (Ch. 13), 1919.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

Spiritual, Branches, Poverty

"A Book of Prefaces". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1917.

It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

Teaching, Men, Thinking

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.316, Vintage

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

Funny, Book, Writing

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

Inspirational, Education, Dream

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.303, Vintage

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

Intelligent, Boys, College

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

Christian, Men, Promise

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

Philosophy, Mean, Intelligent

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Literature, Nine, Cigarette

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Struggle, Safety, Morality

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

Media, Average, Belief

I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

Morning, Expectations, Couches

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Interesting, Literature, World

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Men, Good Woman, Literature

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Sports, Hate, Common Sense

Quoted in Fred Metcalfe The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986).

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Philosophical, Humor, Men

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

Young, Energetic, Humans

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

Respect, Men, Merit

H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

Long, Alcohol, Complaining

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

Forever, Superstitions, Way

"Aftermath". "The Baltimore Sun" Newspaper, September 14, 1925.

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

Knowing, Agnostic, Journalism

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.

Ideas, Healthy, Literature

H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

Artist, Wife, Faithful

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

Writing, Men, Genius

H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

Happiness, Writing, Men

H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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