H. L. Mencken

“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

“Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.”

“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.”

“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”

“The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.”