H. L. Mencken Quotes

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

Topics

HonestyHateI AmMeCommon Sense

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

Jerry Lewis

MyselfDayManMonkeyNeedJust

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Joel Salatin

TodayMyselfCultureVoiceThinking

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

Jenny Offill

PersonalityLimitsThinkI CanOwn

'Happy Feet' has many felicities.

Robert Gottlieb

HappyFeetMany

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

Matt Dillon

GreatDayThinkYouDoneActor

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

Jeffrey Sachs

ChallengeFinancialEndPolitical

You have to do what's best for the brand.

Angela Ahrendts

BestBrandYou

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

Sugar Ray Leonard

DeterminationDisciplineMeIceFame

Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn't.

Tucker Carlson

CorruptionPartyIntellectualCritics

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

Sholom Aleichem

ChildrenFoodWarGoBecomeJewish

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

Mary Bono

GovernmentPeopleInternetPlanWill

I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.

Dawn Richard

ParentsHomelessLoseHouseBirth

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