1,045 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

"O amor é a ilusão de que uma mulher difere da outra"

"The opera…is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral."

"The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer."

"The case against the Jews is long and damning; it would justify ten thousand times as many pogroms as now go on in the world."

"A democracia é a arte e ciência de administrar o circo a partir da jaula dos macacos"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

"Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love."

"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."

"This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world."