The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English. - H. L. Mencken - Quotesmemo.com

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

Popular Topics

Confidence, Dream, Thing, Today, Glory, Peace Love, Mother'S Day, Hip Hop, Culture, I Like You, Math, Evidence, Gossip, Heart, Thought, Organization, Character, Dance, Stories, Involve, Inspirational Life, Impossible, Wisdom, Kind, Job, Wonderful, Ideas, Oceans, Goodbye, Afternoon, Like, Stage, Reality, Children, Light, Poet, Loves, Subject, Positive, Bible, Intelligent, Kindly, Excellent, Beach, Guru, Lifetime, Curiosity, Air, Brain, Life

H. L. Mencken

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

America, Children, English, Illegitimate, Illegitimate Child

Same Author Quotes

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Funny, Heart, White, Land, Folks

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Democracies Have, Freedom, Led, Menacing, Political Will, Politics

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Men, Cynical, Doctrine, Doctrines, Preaches, Idiots

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

Daring, Extravagantly, Lying, Success, Truth

People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

Cheating, Consists, Expect, Honesty, Lying, Stealing

Similar Quotes

Siobhan Dowd

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

Exams, Laughter, Percent, Running, Song, Toil

Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi

I'm fortunate that I was introduced to the world of yoga and pranayama at an early age. That has been very useful to me. I always advise everyone to make this a part of their lives. Sometimes, we notice our mind works on one thing, the body on another, and time brings us in conflict. Yoga synchronizes the heart, the mind, and the body. That is Yoga.

Heart, Mind, Pranayama, Time, Yoga

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

Admire, Risk, Scientist, Scientists, Theory

Kate Braverman

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

Logic, Sound, Sounds, Write, Writing

Steven Galloway

Steven Galloway

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

Foolish, Forever, Joy, Spoke, Stronger