hl mencken on warren harding

A quote I need to remember to use more often in conversation: H.L. Mencken on the writing of Pres. Warren Harding: “It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.” Seems like a quote with many uses.
Actually, Mencken’s entire passage merits quoting, as so much of his work does:
He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.