Form Quotes by Mark Twain

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

— Mark Twain

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

— Mark Twain

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

— Mark Twain

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

— Mark Twain

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts,…

— Mark Twain

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness…

— Mark Twain

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly.…

— Mark Twain

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they…

— Mark Twain

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling…

— Mark Twain

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms…

— Mark Twain

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom,…

— Mark Twain

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are…

— Mark Twain

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It…

— Mark Twain

Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form…

— Mark Twain

It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing…

— Mark Twain

We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to…

— Mark Twain

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him…

— Mark Twain

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and…

— Mark Twain

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book…

— Mark Twain

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the…

— Mark Twain