All Mark Twain Quotes
- Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human… Age
- I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases Ceases
- A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over… Aching
- Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought… Any
- Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. Grass
- I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is… Amount
- From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure… Any
- There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his… All
- The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other… Absence
- The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but… Another Name
- Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind. Creature
- An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and… All
- I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world. Any
- Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one… Conscious
- If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out. Damned
- If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be. All
- The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try… Attached
- ...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. Acting
- I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the… Agony
- I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that… Act
- I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will… Able
- There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that. Dangerous
- It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick. Ass
- Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with… Apply
- When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. Acquired