Top 12 Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes

#1. I carried it too far, thats for sure.

Jeffrey Dahmer

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #16096
#2. Hurting with words is easy," Mairy replied, echoing Leesha's earlier statement, "it's healing with them what's hard.

Peter V. Brett

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #142378
#3. Perhaps I shall be obliged, in order not to peter out, to invent another fairy-tale, yet another, with heads, trunks, arms, legs and all that follows, let loose in the changeless round of imperfect shadow and dubious light.

Samuel Beckett

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #756335
#4. We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #807692
#5. We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Tom Baker

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #897509
#6. Forgiveness is a luxury we can all afford.

Miguelina Perez

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #1211377
#7. I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!

Terry Pratchett

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #1255238
#8. Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

Mohsin Hamid

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #1519319
#9. I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself,
yet cannot overcome - and so I live. Would I had never lived!

Lord Byron

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #1590194
#10. That's how we lose people ... detail by detail, day by day, until they're pale, pale memories.

Sheila Turnage

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #1610888
#11. Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.

Chris Colfer

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #1661952
#12. I fell in love with you in a blink of an eye, Ava. You represented everything I could ever want and the one thing I was most terrified to ask for. The power of what I was feeling scared me to my very core and made me love you and hate myself for being the wrong man for you

Diana T. Scott

Misattributed H L Mencken Quotes #1789627

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