All Mark Twain Quotes
- The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of… Aggressive
- There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. American
- A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out. Flower
- We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. Censorship
- Chastity - you can carry it too far. Carry
- Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Antedates
- Modesty died when clothes were born. Born
- Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom. Advice
- If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. Change
- Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. Century
- A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes… All
- Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. Accumulating
- He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. Iceberg
- The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it. Avoid
- In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. Ethics
- We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention. Attention
- To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it. Art
- Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense. Champion
- 'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it… All
- In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. Correct
- He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. Cabbage
- In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather… Brass
- Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse. Bathhouse
- Had double chins all the way down to his stomach. All
- His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. Anywhere