--- title: "13 Talking Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "13 Talking quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Talking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36b/mark-twain-22_audience_it-is-my-custom-to-keep-on-talking-until_2244022.png" --- > [It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-my-custom-to-keep-on-talking-until-i-get-the-audience-cowed/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36b/mark-twain-22_audience_it-is-my-custom-to-keep-on-talking-until_2244022.png) > [I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-cannot-keep-from-talking-even-at-the-risk-of-being-instructive/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d91/mark-twain-22_communication_i-cannot-keep-from-talking-even-at-the-r_2454017.png) > [The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-true-charm-of-pedestrians-does-not-lie-in-the-walking-or-in-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/mark-twain-22_charm_the-true-charm-of-pedestrians-does-not-l_1937621.png) > [There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-so-annoying-as-to-have-two-people-talking-when-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/mark-twain-22_annoying_there-is-nothing-so-annoying-as-to-have_3139938.png) > [There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-so-annoying-as-having-two-people-talking-when-you-re/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18c/mark-twain-22_interrupting_there-is-nothing-so-annoying-as-having-t_672744.png) > [Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/talking-of-patriotism-what-humbug-it-is-it-is-a-word-which-always/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc8/mark-twain-22_humbug_talking-of-patriotism-what-humbug-it-is_3139149.png) > [The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-pulpit-and-the-optimist-are-always-talking-about-the-human-race-s/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab0/mark-twain-22_human-race_the-pulpit-and-the-optimist-are-always-t_2104072.jpg) > [I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-have-criticized-absent-people-so-often-and-then-discovered-to-my/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/mark-twain-22_absent_i-have-criticized-absent-people-so-often_2204565.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 catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-catched-fish-and-talked-and-we-took-a-swim-now-and-then-to-keep/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/501/mark-twain-22_bigs_we-catched-fish-and-talked-and-we-took-a_3061519.png) > [The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-true-charm-of-pedestrianism-does-not-lie-in-the-walking-or-in-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38d/mark-twain-22_active_the-true-charm-of-pedestrianism-does-not_2303375.png) > [You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-believe-in-a-book-that-has-talking-animals-wizards-witches-demons-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9df/mark-twain-22_absurd_you-believe-in-a-book-that-has-talking-a_1793623.jpg) > [I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-am-personally-acquainted-with-hundreds-of-journalists-and-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e72/mark-twain-22_community_i-am-personally-acquainted-with-hundreds_2028888.jpg) ## Other authors on Talking ## 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/talking/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "13 Talking Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": 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