H. L. Mencken

“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”

“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.”

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

“Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.”

“Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.”

“A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.”

“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”

“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

“Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.”

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”