The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.
H. L. MenckenHenry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
H. L. MenckenIn every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
H. L. MenckenIt takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.
H. L. Mencken