Mark Twain. "The truth should never be permitted to stand…

“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded Age, when…

— Evan Osnos

“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom…

— Norman Lock

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes…

— Samuel Fuller

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

— Robin Williams

“Never let school get in the way of your education. Mark Twain”

— Evelyn Krieger

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

— Val Kilmer

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. Â Mark Twain

— Mark Twain

'Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.' Mark Twain

— Anonymous

“If my name were Mark Twain, I’d write under the pseudonym “Samuel Clemens.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual…

— Pete Hamill

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

— Tina Fey

“The truth is a fragile thing, but a lie, well told, can live forever. “ — Mark Twain”

— Rebecca Nugent