“After much reflection—suppose it was a lie? What then? Was it such a great matter? Aren’t we always acting lies? Then why… — Mark Twain Lies Copy Share Image
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously. — Mark Twain Human race Copy Share Image
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. — Mark Twain Auburn Copy Share Image
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain Beer Copy Share Image
The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea. — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.-- Mark Twain — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in… — Mark Twain Christian Copy Share Image
Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was… — Mark Twain Ancient Copy Share Image
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to… — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
“I should not be able to make any one understand how exciting it all was. You know that kind of quiver that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great… — Mark Twain Acquisition Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image
“O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling… — Mark Twain God Copy Share Image
“Sure enough, it was just as I had dreaded, he started to climb the tree-" "What the Bull?" "Of course- who else?"… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“eggs." "You're a liar!" "You're another." "You're a fighting liar and dasn't take it up." "Aw—take a walk!" "Say—if you give me… — Mark Twain Liar Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union. — Mark Twain Bay area Copy Share Image
I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. — Mark Twain Cigar Copy Share Image
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. — Mark Twain Honest truth Copy Share Image
