SubscribeHenry Louis “H.L.” Mencken Love Quotes and Sayings
Posted on Oct 11, 2008 under Acerbic Critic, American Journalist, Essayist, H, H.L., Henry Louis Mencken, The American Language | 1 CommentH. L. Mencken’s Love Quotes and Sayings
1. A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
2. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
3. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
4. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the “Sage of Baltimore“, is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century.
Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the “Monkey” trial.
Sayings by H.L. Mencken
1. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
2. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
