Henry Louis Mencken Berühmte Zitate
Original englisch: "All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. 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." - Bayard vs. Lionheart https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21831908/hl_mencken_article_26_jul_1920_the/ in The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 1920-07-26 (dort am Ende des Artikels)
Zitate über Männer von Henry Louis Mencken
Zitate über Demokratie von Henry Louis Mencken
Demokratenspiegel. Die Korruption unter der Demokratie http://mencken.atspace.org/mencken9_2.htm
Original englisch: "Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both."
Demokratenspiegel
Demokratenspiegel. Fußnote über Pechvögel http://mencken.atspace.org/mencken9_1.htm
Original englisch: "All politics, under democracy, resolves itself into a series of dynastic questions: the objective is always the job, not the principle."
Demokratenspiegel
Henry Louis Mencken Zitate und Sprüche
Englisch: "Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong" - "The Divine Afflatus" in: New York Evening Mail (16. November 1917); später veröffentlicht in Prejudices: Second Series (1921) p. 158 https://archive.org/stream/prejudices030184mbp#page/n163/mode/1up und, geringfügig verändert, in A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), p. 443 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=2Q19hMwsNgYC&pg=PA443&dq=neat
Demokratenspiegel. Missverhältnis in der Vertretung in den USA http://mencken.atspace.org/mencken5.htm
Original englisch: "The typical democrat is quite willing to exchange any of the theoretical boons of freedom for something that he can use."
Demokratenspiegel
Demokratenspiegel. Die Zukunft der Demokratie http://mencken.atspace.org/mencken9_3.htm
Original englisch: "Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other."
Demokratenspiegel
Aus dem Wörterbuch "Jazz Webster". Autorisierte Übersetzung von Thea Maria Lenz. In: DAS TAGE-BUCH. Berlin, 17. Februar 1923, Heft 7 Jahrg. 4. S. 222 archive.org http://archive.org/stream/DasTage-buch19231.Halbjahr/DasTage-buch1923-1#page/n231/mode/2up/search/jazz+webster
(Original englisch: "IDEALIST. One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - XI. The Jazz Webster. In: A Book of Burlesques. New York 1920. p. 205 gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22145/22145-h/22145-h.htm#XI_THE_JAZZ_WEBSTER
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing" - A Few Pages of Notes. In: The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, vol. 45, 1915. p. 435 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=hXVHAAAAYAAJ&q=idealist [unter dem Pseudonym William Drayham], A Little Book in C Major. New York John Lane 1916. p. 19 archive.org http://archive.org/stream/littlebookcmajor00mencrich#page/19/mode/2up)
Zitiert bei Richard Dawkins: Der Gotteswahn. Ullstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3550086881. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel. S. 44
Original englisch: "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." - Minority report - H.L. Mencken's Notebooks. Knopf 1956. p. 3. Vorabdruck in LIFE 20. Februar 1956 p. 76 rechts oben
Zitiert in einem Brief von Timothy McVeigh an Gore Vidal vom 28. Februar 1999. Abgedruckt in Gore Vidal: Die Bedeutung von Timothy McVeigh. In Gore Vidal: Ewiger Krieg für ewigen Frieden. Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Bernhard Jendricke und Barbara Steckhan. EVA Hamburg 3. Aufl. 2002 (Original "The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh", in Vanity Fair September 2001 vanityfair.com http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2001/09/mcveigh200109 4. Abschnitt)
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - über Ezra Pound. Prejudices, First Series. New York 1919. Chapter 6: "The New Poetry Movement", p. 90. docsouth.unc.edu http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/mencken/mencken.html
„Die Ehe ist eine wunderbare Einrichtung, aber wer möchte in einer Einrichtung leben?“
Variante: Die Ehe ist eine wunderbare Institution, aber wer möchte schon in einer Institution leben?
Henry Louis Mencken: Zitate auf Englisch
412
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
33
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Des MacHale, Wit, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City (KS), 2003, ISBN 978-0-7407-3330-7, page 197 https://books.google.ca/books?id=Dhlgd_Af1C4C&pg=PA197
Misattributed
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“Democratic man, dreaming eternally of Utopias, is ever a prey to shibboleths.”
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
"The Incomparable Buzzsaw", The Smart Set, May 1919 http://books.google.com/books?id=ySscAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+allurement+that+they+hold+out+to+men+is+precisely+the+allurement+that+Cape+Hatteras+holds+out+to+sailors+they+are+enormously+dangerous+and+hence+enormously+fascinating%22&pg=PA54#v=onepage; later published in Prejudices: Second Series, Ch. 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=0-A4AQAAMAAJ&q=%22The+allurement+that+they+hold+out+to+men+is+precisely+the+allurement+that+Cape+Hatteras+holds+out+to+sailors+they+are+enormously+dangerous+and+hence+enormously+fascinating%22&pg=PA236#v=onepage (1920)
1910s
298
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
April 1, 1945
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)
Quelle: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 3
1940s–present, Introduction to Nietzsche's The Antichrist
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
As quoted in LIFE magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (5 August 1946), p. 48 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3UwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&client=safari&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false
1940s–present
“Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.”
The American Language (1919)
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
October 24, 1945
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)
April 13, 1945
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)
“The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.”
Quelle: 1910s, A Book of Prefaces (1917), Ch. 1
71
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908/1913)
1900s
68
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
April 15, 1945
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)
On "teachers of English" in "The Schoolmarm's Goal" in The Lower Depths (1925)
1920s
397
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
1940s–present, Introduction to Nietzsche's The Antichrist