When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it. — 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
“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There are not books enough on earth to contain the record of the prophecies Indians and other unauthorized parties have made; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision… — 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
Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen makes me detest all her characters, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. — 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. -- Huck Finn” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“way. And there ain’t no OTHER way, that ever I heard of, and I’ve read all the books that gives any information… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper… — 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
