Henry Louis Mencken citáty (305 citátů, strana 7)

"The American: His New Puritanism," http://books.google.com/books?id=tn9HAAAAYAAJ&q=%22If+there+is+one+mental+vice+indeed+which+sets+off+the+American+people+from+all+other+folks+who+walk+the+earth%22+%22it+is+that+of%22+%22that+every+human+act+must+be+either+right+or+wrong+and+that+ninety-nine+percent+of+them+are+wrong%22&pg=RA1-PA87#v=onepage The Smart Set (February 1914) <br class="br">1910s

“What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story.”

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The American Mercury (May 1933), p. 136
1930s

“An aristocratic society may hold that a soldier or a man of learning is superior to a rich manufacturer or banker, but in a democratic society the latter are inevitably put higher, if only because their achievement is more readily comprehended by the inferior man, and he can more easily imagine himself, by some favour of God, duplicating it.”

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1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)

“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”

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Zdroj: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 3

“Jury — A group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“It is a fact that no man improves much after the age of 60 and after 65, most suffer a really alarming decline. I could give some examples, but at the advice of my publisher will refrain from doing so.”

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A Book of Burlesques (1916)
1910s

“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.”

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Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.”

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H.L. Mencken kniha The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908), pg. 217
1900s

“God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.”

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

“Democracy is shot through with this delight in the incredible, this banal mysticism. I have alluded to its touching acceptance of the faith that progress is illimitable and ordained of God - that every human problem, in the very nature of things, may be solved.”

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1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)

“The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.”

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Zdroj: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 15 "The Dismal Science"

“It is moral by his code to get into office by false pretences. It is moral to change convictions overnight. Anything is moral that furthers the main concern of his soul, which is to keep a place at the public trough.”

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On elected politicians
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)

“When women kiss, it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) <br class="br">Zdroj: Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=TqEFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22when+women+kiss+it+always+reminds+one+of+prize+fighters+shaking+hands%22&pg=PA619#v=onepage

“Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.”

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A Little Book in C major http://books.google.com/books?id=EAJbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Bachelors+know+more+about+women+than+married+men+If+they+didn't+they'd+be+married+too%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage (1916) ; later published in A Mencken Crestomathy (1949) <br class="br">1910s

“A novelty loses nothing by the fact that it is a novelty; it rather gains something, and particularly if it meets the national fancy for the terse, the vivid, and, above all, the bold and imaginative.”

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H.L. Mencken kniha The American Language

Zdroj: The American Language (1919), Ch. 5

“To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies — the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said — there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

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Zdroj: 1910s, A Book of Prefaces (1917), Ch. 2

“If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.”

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H.L. Mencken

Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)