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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«Children have but little charity for one another's defects»
«I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S. Grant in full military regalia.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
go to bed, in full, Lillian, Lillian Russell, regale, regalia, Russell, stark, starkest, stark naked, Ulysses, Ulysses S. Grant
«A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
accord, consideration, entitled, monarch, monarchs, pirate, pirates, Sunday best, Sunday school, the Monarch
«Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration»
«Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
annihilation, holiday, perplexities, perplexity, put together, resume, resumed, resumes, resuming, sense of responsibility, serenity, terrors, unbroken
«I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Almighty, convenient, cousin, distemper, distempered, distempers, equals, grandmother, incurable, nurse, ornament, scarce, superiors, sweetheart, sweethearts, wealthy, wealthy man, wet nurse
«There are many scapegoats for our blunders, but the most popular one is Providence»
«Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
belongings, delicacies, delicacy, family circle, narratives, obscene, robs
«(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
beneficent, Cain, dark ages, insanity plea, plea, twain
«The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Flag of, highwayman, kingly, originally, perpetuated, pirate, pirates, procured
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