H. L. Mencken Quotes About Alcohol

• The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Men, Wind

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

• All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Song, Food

• As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Food, Long

• A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Food, Men

• As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

  H. L. Mencken

  Long, Alcohol, Complaining

• I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Alcohol, Want

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