Memorable H.L. Mencken And Noel Coward Quotes

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
H.L. Mencken
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
Mark Twain (often attributed to H.L. Mencken)
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable."
H.L. Mencken
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
H.L. Mencken
"The only way to believe that you're管理 able to see the world is to pretend that you're ignorant."
H.L. Mencken
"It is even harder to endure the good fortune of others than to endure our own misfortunes."
H.L. Mencken
"Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it."
Jerome K. Jerome (often attributed to H.L. Mencken)
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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."
H.L. Mencken
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
H.L. Mencken
"There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong."
H.L. Mencken
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
Noel Coward
"I believe that since my life has been so full, and because I have lived it happily, I can teach something even by my dying."
Noel Coward
"Work is much more fun than fun."
Noel Coward
"It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
Noel Coward
"I'm an enormously talented man, and there are no two ways about it."
Noel Coward
"A talent to amuse."
Noel Coward (his self-description)
"I can't abide any pretence that someone is more culturally respectable than someone else... I can't bear snobbery... but I can be extremely cutting about it."
Noel Coward
"Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take positions in the government."
Orson Welles (often compared to H.L. Mencken and Noel Coward)
"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision."
Bertrand Russell (a contemporary intellectual)
"I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something. In doing so I have found that persistence is the measure of success."
Calvin Coolidge (similar mindset to Mencken)
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
Oscar Wilde (contemporary of Coward, similarly witty)
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"I must decline to pursue my studies any further. I am an ox, not a grinder!"
Jose Marti (often compared to Mencken in terms of political com
"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."
Henry David Thoreau (similar social critique to Mencken)
"The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe."
H. L. Mencken
"The only thing I have is instinct."
Noel Coward

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