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
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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.
Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
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.
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.