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
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.
Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.