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Letter "H" » Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
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«The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowingto the mob.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
flattering, kowtow, kowtowing, mob, the mob
«No man ever quite believes in any other man»
«No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight»
«There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.»
«Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable»
«The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
attracts, get on, prosecution, prosecutions, surest
«When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
appropriate, crave, funds, horde, hordes, Negroes, public funds, smallpox, vaccinated, vaccinating
«Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.»
«Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
pathetic, retired, stud, studded, studs
«Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Morality,
Time
| Keywords:
morals, The Field
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