H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Menckenwas a German-American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. As a scholar Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 September 1880
CountryUnited States of America
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.