Генри Луис Менкен: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 5)

Генри Луис Менкен было американский журналист, эссеист, сатирик. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“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)

“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Источник: Minority Report

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

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)

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

"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

“The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”

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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)