Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.…

H. L. Mencken
520 citations
Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2012). Mencken Chrestomathy, p.616, Vintage
Truth
27

More Author Quotes

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.
The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the e … ▶
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder. ✨ H. L. Mencken (2009). Prejudices: Third Series, p.124, … ▶

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2012). Mencken Chrestomathy, p.616, Vintage

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes