Frasi di Henry Louis Mencken
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Henry Louis Mencken è stato un giornalista e saggista statunitense, nonché curatore editoriale, conosciuto come il "Saggio di Baltimora", ed è noto soprattutto per la pungente satira della società puritana del suo Paese e per i suoi studi di linguistica, attività che lo hanno reso uno dei più influenti scrittori statunitensi della prima metà del XX secolo. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Settembre 1880 – 29. Gennaio 1956
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Henry Louis Mencken Frasi e Citazioni

“Nulla può venir fuori dall'artista che non sia nell'uomo.”

dai Pregiudizi, Quinta serie

Henry Louis Mencken: Frasi in inglese

“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.”

Sententiæ
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“I don't have prejudice, I hate everyone equally.”

Attributed in The Mammoth Book of Jokes (2006) edited by Geoff Tibbals; no earlier citation yet located.
Disputed

“If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth … it is that of assuming that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that ninety-nine percent of them are wrong.”

"The American: His New Puritanism," http://books.google.com/books?id=tn9HAAAAYAAJ&q=%22If+there+is+one+mental+vice+indeed+which+sets+off+the+American+people+from+all+other+folks+who+walk+the+earth%22+%22it+is+that+of%22+%22that+every+human+act+must+be+either+right+or+wrong+and+that+ninety-nine+percent+of+them+are+wrong%22&pg=RA1-PA87#v=onepage The Smart Set (February 1914)
1910s

“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”

Origine: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 3

“Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.”

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.”

Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.”

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.”

H.L. Mencken libro The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908), pg. 217
1900s

“When women kiss, it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.”

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Origine: Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=TqEFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22when+women+kiss+it+always+reminds+one+of+prize+fighters+shaking+hands%22&pg=PA619#v=onepage

“Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.”

A Little Book in C major http://books.google.com/books?id=EAJbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Bachelors+know+more+about+women+than+married+men+If+they+didn't+they'd+be+married+too%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage (1916) ; later published in A Mencken Crestomathy (1949)
1910s

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