Quotes from Mark Twain
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
- Mark Twain
In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.
- Mark Twain
If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.
- Mark Twain
A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.
- Mark Twain
Death is to life as heaven is to hell they're both dependent on each other
- Mark Twain
I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.
- Mark Twain
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
- Mark Twain
Oh, there spoke the human! He is always pretending that the eternal bliss of heaven is such a priceless boon! Yes, and always keeping out of heaven just as long as he can! At bottom, you see, he is far from being certain about heaven.
- Mark Twain
So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Jim says the same.
- Mark Twain
Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you.
- Mark Twain
She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and jimpson weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:
- Mark Twain
If he was a wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- Mark Twain