“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Australian History: .... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Image
