--- title: "10 Curious Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "10 Curious quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Curious sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/mark-twain-22_attraction_it-is-curious-and-interesting-to-notice_2255150.png" --- > [It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-curious-and-interesting-to-notice-what-an-attraction-a-fussy/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/mark-twain-22_attraction_it-is-curious-and-interesting-to-notice_2255150.png) > [Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/inherited-ideas-are-a-curious-thing-and-interesting-to-observe-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eea/mark-twain-22_curious_inherited-ideas-are-a-curious-thing-and_527354.png) > [My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/my-own-luck-has-been-curious-all-my-literary-life-i-never-could-tell/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6d/mark-twain-22_believe_my-own-luck-has-been-curious-all-my-lite_2322064.png) > [What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/what-a-curious-kind-of-fool-a-girl-is-never-been-licked-in-school/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/336/mark-twain-22_curious_what-a-curious-kind-of-fool-a-girl-is-ne_1287311.png) > [It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-curious-that-physical-courage-should-be-so-common-in-the-world/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23d/mark-twain-22_bravery_it-is-curious-that-physical-courage-shou_2817652.png) > [The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-slowness-of-one-section-of-the-world-about-adopting-the-valuable/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a3/mark-twain-22_adopting_the-slowness-of-one-section-of-the-world_1862916.png) > [It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-was-in-warwick-castle-that-i-came-across-the-curious-stranger-whom/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c80/mark-twain-22_ancient_it-was-in-warwick-castle-that-i-came-acr_969233.png) > [We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-wish-to-learn-all-the-curious-outlandish-ways-of-all-the-different/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db3/mark-twain-22_country_we-wish-to-learn-all-the-curious-outland_871892.png) > [Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/nevertheless-we-have-this-curious-spectacle-daily-the-trained-parrot/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c2/mark-twain-22_accepting_nevertheless-we-have-this-curious-specta_1524035.jpg) > [There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-new-idea-it-is-impossible-we-simply-take/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c22/mark-twain-22_age_there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-new-idea-it_1698068.jpg) ## Other authors on Curious ## More by Mark Twain > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/curious/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "10 Curious Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-curious-and-interesting-to-notice-what-an-attraction-a-fussy/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/mark-twain-22_attraction_it-is-curious-and-interesting-to-notice_2255150.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/mark-twain-22_attraction_it-is-curious-and-interesting-to-notice_2255150.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/mark-twain-22_attraction_it-is-curious-and-interesting-to-notice_2255150.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/inherited-ideas-are-a-curious-thing-and-interesting-to-observe-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eea/mark-twain-22_curious_inherited-ideas-are-a-curious-thing-and_527354.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eea/mark-twain-22_curious_inherited-ideas-are-a-curious-thing-and_527354.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eea/mark-twain-22_curious_inherited-ideas-are-a-curious-thing-and_527354.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/my-own-luck-has-been-curious-all-my-literary-life-i-never-could-tell/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6d/mark-twain-22_believe_my-own-luck-has-been-curious-all-my-lite_2322064.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6d/mark-twain-22_believe_my-own-luck-has-been-curious-all-my-lite_2322064.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6d/mark-twain-22_believe_my-own-luck-has-been-curious-all-my-lite_2322064.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a…” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What a curious kind of fool a girl is. 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