111 Quotes by H.L. Mencken

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent — the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.