Quote #48
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from H. L. Mencken
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- Platitude - An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
- Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time. You will never convince the average farmer's mare that the late Maud S. w…
- Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.
- Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
- Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
- The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.