Twain Quotes

96 quotes by 78 authors

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered â€” now I have… — Aleister Crowley
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century… — Anna Quindlen
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt… — Richard Louv
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. — Lloyd Alexander
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain,… — J D Hayworth
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). — John Milton
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told… — Marchette Chute
A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain. Carlo DeVito brings… — Unknown Author
If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn. — Andy Borowitz
I read Norman Lockâ€™sÂ The Boy in His WinterÂ with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true… — Unknown Author
If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain? — Ralph Ellison
Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a… — Elif Batuman
Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is… — George Ade
Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test. — Kinky Friedman
Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one. — William Shakespeare
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it. — Stephen Schneider
Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the… — David Bianculli
Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're… — Val Kilmer
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. — Rudyard Kipling

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