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H. L. Mencken Quotes about Husband

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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

Husband, Men, Heartless

"Prejudices". Fourth Series,

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

Husband, Intelligent, Men

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Diary of H. L. Mencken”, p.248, Vintage

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Marriage, Husband, Giving

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

Husband, Men, Wife

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.

Anniversary, Marriage, Husband

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

Husband, Father, Views

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.537, Vintage

The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.

Husband, Children, Father

H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.42, 谷月社

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

Husband, Men, Years

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Funny, Money, Husband

Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

Husband, War, Next Day

American Mercury, Apr. 1928

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.

Marriage, Jealousy, Husband

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

Funny, Husband, Wife

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

Trust, Husband, Women

H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Husband, Good Husband

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

Marriage, Husband, Men

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Trust, Husband, Stupid

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