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Quite Quotes by Mark Twain
- Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular…
- I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
- In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like…
- The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as…
- There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
- Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.
- 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…
- 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…
- The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,…
- ... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
- She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that…
- It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is…
- All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since…
- I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
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- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit… — David Attenborough
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- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden