--- title: "9 Insult Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "9 Insult quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Insult sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/mark-twain-22_being-thankful_let-us-be-thankful-for-the-fools-but-for_1375690.png" --- > [Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/let-us-be-thankful-for-the-fools-but-for-them-the-rest-of-us-could/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/mark-twain-22_being-thankful_let-us-be-thankful-for-the-fools-but-for_1375690.png) > [It is a shameful thing to insult a child.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-a-shameful-thing-to-insult-a-child/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c3/mark-twain-22_children_it-is-a-shameful-thing-to-insult-a-child_3096583.png) > [Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/drawing-on-my-fine-command-of-language-i-said-nothing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd3/mark-twain-22_command_drawing-on-my-fine-command-of-language-i_2068848.png) > [Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/tea-is-an-affront-to-lunch-and-an-insult-to-dinner/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21d/mark-twain-22_affront_tea-is-an-affront-to-lunch-and-an-insult_2350585.png) > [I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-don-t-know-anything-about-this-man-anyhow-i-only-know-two-things/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e04/mark-twain-22_insult_i-don-t-know-anything-about-this-man-any_2300064.png) > [Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/well-patriotism-has-its-laws-and-it-also-is-a-perfectly-definite-one/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d36/mark-twain-22_book_well-patriotism-has-its-laws-and-it-also_696853.png) > [To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/to-be-a-patriot-one-had-to-say-and-keep-on-saying-our-country-right/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/mark-twain-22_country_to-be-a-patriot-one-had-to-say-and-keep_2268633.png) > [The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-spirit-of-christianity-proclaims-the-brotherhood-of-the-race-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d26/mark-twain-22_another-way_the-spirit-of-christianity-proclaims-the_77267.png) > [“And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; you always come out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/and-what-does-it-amount-to-said-satan-with-his-evil-chuckle-nothing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5c/mark-twain-22_insult_and-what-does-it-amount-to-said-satan-wi_1936311.png) ## Other authors on Insult ## 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/insult/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "9 Insult Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Let us be thankful for the fools. 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You gain nothing; you always come out where you went in. For a million years the race has gone on monotonously propagating itself and monotonously reperforming this dull nonsense--to what end? No wisdom can guess! Who gets a profit out of it? Nobody but a parcel of usurping little monarchs and nobilities who despise you; would feel defiled if you touched them; would shut the door in your face if you proposed to call; whom you slave for, fight for, die for, and are not ashamed of it, but proud; whose existence is a perpetual insult to you and you are afraid to resent it; who are mendicants supported by your alms, yet assume toward you the airs of benefactor toward beggar; who address you in the language of master to slave, and are answered in in the language of slave to master; who are worshiped by you with your mouth, while in your heart--if you have one--you despise yourselves for it. The first man was hypocrite and a coward, qualities which have not yet failed in his line; it is the foundation upon which all civilizations have been built. Drink to their perpetuation! Drink to their augmentation! 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