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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
immovable, inquiring, revolt
«So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
anthropoid, association, free association
«A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what you mean by two, what by makes, and what by four»
«They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
irresponsible, quack, quacks, unintelligent, upbringing
«I have yet to meet (a socialist) who was not as gullible as a Mississippi darkey - nay, as a Mississippi white man»
«What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell»
«[Rudolph Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
agony, called for, commonly called, intolerable, in brief, relatively, Rudolph, vulgarity