WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:59:34 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg respectibility – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Mencken, H. L. -- “The Blushful Mystery: Art and Sex,” Prejudices: First Series (1919) https://wist.info/mencken-hl/25629/ https://wist.info/mencken-hl/25629/#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:47:24 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=25629 The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.


H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
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