{"author":"H.L. Mencken","author_id":"H.L.+Mencken","total_quotes":93,"quotes":[{"text":"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["diplomacy","love","outrage"],"id":8232,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["romance"],"id":13781,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["apothegm","humor"],"id":13988,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["democracy","gullibility","public-opinion"],"id":22332,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"The Jews could be put down very plausible as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["antisemitism","jews","qualities","race"],"id":29551,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["activist","patriotism"],"id":31378,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["writing"],"id":37176,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"The best client is a scared millionaire.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["greed"],"id":41839,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"Yet the same thing happens to the notions of morality. They are devised, at the start, as measures of expediency, and then given divine sanction in order to lend them authority.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["morality"],"id":44909,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["poets"],"id":51033,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":93,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}