Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed. — Mark Twain Audience Copy Share Image
There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it. — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
“On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.” — Mark Twain Bad reviews Copy Share Image
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He” — Mark Twain Gratitude Copy Share Image
“The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger. - "The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is hard to make railroading pleasant in any country. It is too tedious.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable. — Mark Twain Amusing Copy Share Image
Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and… — Mark Twain Change Copy Share Image
“Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take… — Mark Twain Robbers Copy Share Image
There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous,… — Mark Twain Accidents Copy Share Image
“There’s no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama,… — Mark Twain Drama Copy Share Image
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to… — Mark Twain Brass Copy Share Image
“and a manner so peculiar and romantic, and extraneous, and ad libitum, and heart-searching, that—that—he—he is an impressionist, I presume?" "No," said… — Mark Twain Artist Copy Share Image
“Mere life is a luxury, and the color of the grass, of the flowers, of the sky, the wind in the trees,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator’s pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has… — Mark Twain 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
If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise… — Mark Twain Argument Copy Share Image
“I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses… — Mark Twain Long ago Copy Share Image
The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The truth was, the nation as a body was in the world for one object, and one only: to grovel before king… — Mark Twain Slave Copy Share Image
We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Burden Copy Share Image
