H. L. Mencken Quotes About Cigars

• There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ugly, Cigar, Smokers

• The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Ocean, Past

• The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

  H. L. Mencken

  Opinion, Cigar, Worst

You May Also Like:

George Jean Nathan

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mark Twain

Clarence Darrow

Sinclair Lewis

Ambrose Bierce

John T. Scopes