The town is too full of distractions to be comfortable to artists; it is comfortable only to performers. Its machinery of dissipation is so vastly developed that no man can escape it – not even an author laboring in his lonely room, the blinds down and chewing gum plugging his ears. He hears the swish […]
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
Nature abhors a moron.
There are, indeed, only two kinds of music: German music and bad music.
I don’t go to hear music much because I dislike sitting in seats, confined for an hour or two between maybe unpleasant people and having to hear stuff that maybe I don’t want to hear. When you go to a concert, you have to take what the professor offers.
All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.
No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
(The intelligensia.) For various reasons this shadowy caste is largely made up of men who have official stamps upon their learning – that is, of professors, of doctors of philosophy; outside of academic circles it tends to shade off very rapidly into a half-world of isolated anarchists. One of those reasons is plain enough: the […]
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
