"It is difficult to believe that even..." - Quote by H L Mencken
It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.
More by H L Mencken
“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.”
“There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.”
“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.”
More on Writing
“There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.”
“My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.”
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
More on Rhetoric
“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."”
“A good indignation makes an excellent speech.”
“Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.”