Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You think you are reading proof, whereas you are merely reading your own mind; your statement of the thing is full of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Say, do we kill the women too?" "Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. Kill… — mark twain Copy Share Image
“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
