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Mark Twain Quotes
«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
«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
«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