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A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.
— H.L. Mencken
I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.
— H.L. Mencken
Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
— H.L. Mencken
Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.
— H.L. Mencken
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
— H.L. Mencken
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
— H.L. Mencken
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
— H.L. Mencken
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
— H.L. Mencken
He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.
— H.L. Mencken
The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.
— H.L. Mencken
Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.
— H.L. Mencken
Every man is his own hell.
— H.L. Mencken
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.
— H.L. Mencken
The worst government is the most moral.
— H.L. Mencken
The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!
— H.L. Mencken
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
— H.L. Mencken
Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
— H.L. Mencken
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
— H.L. Mencken
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
— H.L. Mencken
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
— H.L. Mencken
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
— H.L. Mencken
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
— H.L. Mencken
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
— H.L. Mencken
Time stays, we go.
— H.L. Mencken