# Quote — H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

> Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

- Author: [H.L. Mencken](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken.md)
- Book: [A Mencken Chrestomathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#A_Mencken_Chrestomathy_(1949)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/conscience-is-a-mother-in-law

## More from this book

> Theology — An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/theology-an-effort.md)

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md)

> Jury — A group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/jury-a-group.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)

> No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/no-matter-how.md)

Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md)