Генри Луис Менкен: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 5)
Генри Луис Менкен было американский журналист, эссеист, сатирик. Цитаты на английском языке.“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Источник: A Mencken Chrestomathy
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.”
1910s
Источник: A Little Book in C Major (1916)
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Источник: Minority Report
The portion after the second semicolon is widely paraphrased or misquoted. Two examples are "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" and "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong."
1910s
Источник: "The Divine Afflatus" in New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917); later published in Prejudices: Second Series (1920) and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
"A Few Pages of Notes," http://books.google.com/books?id=hXVHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Democracy+is+the+theory+that+the+common+people+know+what+they+want+and+deserve+to+get+it+good+and+hard%22&pg=PA435#v=onepage The Smart Set (January 1915); later published in A Little Book in C major http://books.google.com/books?id=EAJbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Democracy+is+the+theory+that+the+common+people+know+what+they+want+and+deserve+to+get+it+good+and+hard%22&pg=PA19#v=onepage (1916), and A Mencken Crestomathy (1949)
1910s
Источник: A Little Book in C Major
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
Источник: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 14 "Types of Men" - 3 : The Believer
Источник: Prejudices: Third Series
“We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Источник: A Mencken Chrestomathy
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
323
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Источник: Minority Report
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“Misogynist — A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Источник: Minority Report