29 Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by school ma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.