Quotes from Mark Twain

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.