Enhance Your Quote Experience
Enjoy ad-free browsing, unlimited collections, and advanced search features with Premium.
“ ”The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
About H.L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956), known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche". He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century.
Biography information from Wikiquote
Additional quotes by H.L. Mencken
Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right. the United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent.It's history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.