In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this… — Mark Twain Appetite Copy Share Image
This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is. — Mark Twain Australia Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect… — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live,… — Mark Twain Goodness Copy Share Image
I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because… — Mark Twain Effort Copy Share Image
Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I… — Mark Twain Alphas Copy Share Image
“Under our infamous laws the seducer is not punished, and is not even disgraced, but his victim and all her family and… — Mark Twain Family Copy Share Image
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an… — Mark Twain Attention Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great… — Mark Twain Acquisition Copy Share Image
“I should not be able to make any one understand how exciting it all was. You know that kind of quiver that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling… — Mark Twain God Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image
“Sure enough, it was just as I had dreaded, he started to climb the tree-" "What the Bull?" "Of course- who else?"… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
