Quotes by Mencken, H. L.

Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. >>

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search >>

Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist. >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a >>

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. >>

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking >>

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.