Able Quotes by Mark Twain

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

— Mark Twain

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

— Mark Twain

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

— Mark Twain

“for he seemed only able to inhale it by thimblefuls,”

— Mark Twain

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

— Mark Twain

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

— Mark Twain

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find…

— Mark Twain

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader…

— Mark Twain

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to…

— Mark Twain

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through…

— Mark Twain

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the…

— Mark Twain

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not…

— Mark Twain

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable…

— Mark Twain

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are…

— Mark Twain

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I…

— Mark Twain

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do…

— Mark Twain

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to…

— Mark Twain

I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as…

— Mark Twain