The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader… — 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
