Top 150 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.