H. L. Mencken Quotes About Youth

• Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

  H. L. Mencken

  Eye, May, Youth

• It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

  H. L. Mencken

  Real, Tragedy, Adults

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.308, Vintage

• Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fall, Passing Away, Tin

  H. L. Mencken (1917). “A Book of Prefaces”

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