Quotes by Mencken, H. L.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty. >>

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking >>

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own so >>

Quotations about Puritans

The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world >>

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, >>

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. >>

The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.

Mencken, H. L.