You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
H.L. MenckenTags: writing literary-criticism
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H.L. MenckenTags: democracy
I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
H.L. MenckenConscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H.L. MenckenTags: humor ethics conscience definitions inner-voice
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H.L. MenckenTags: politics democracy elite elitism elitist meritocracy voter voting predictions
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.
H.L. MenckenHe writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.
(writing about US President Warren G. Harding)
Tags: literary-criticism bad-reviews political-commentary
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. MenckenThe capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H.L. MenckenIf the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God....
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