Home / Quotes / Quote by Mark Twain

Quote by Mark Twain

“An honest politician is an oxymoron.”

Quote by Mark Twain

Author

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a renowned American author and humorist in the 19th century. His works are characterized by humor, satire, and profound social insight, with notable novels such as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. more

You May Also Like

“Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.”

“God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.”

Art Said Form Identity Possibility Source Shadow God Is Love

Book:Three Days Before the Shooting . . .

Source: Three Days Before the Shooting . . .

“Do ye dare to draw arms against the justice of God?" snapped the tubby little judge. Jamie drew the sword completely, with a flash of steel, then thrust it point-first into the ground, leaving the hilt quivering with the force of the blow. "I draw it in defense of this women, and the truth," he said "If any here be against those two they'll answer to me, and then God, in that order.”

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn

“Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.”

America Bird Giants Legends North America Cannibal Sasquatch

Author:Rick Riordan

“When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.”

Knows I Can Figures Sick Tape Transport God Is Dead

Book:A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

“The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.”

“A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.”

Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher

“Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.”

Want Sometimes Happens Despite

Book:Flowers in the Attic

Source: Flowers in the Attic

“I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest.”

Needs Years Two Doubt Stronger Selfish Dull Two Years I Am Selfish

Book:The Darkest Pleasure

Source: The Darkest Pleasure

“You want me to come clean, I will. I'll tell you everything. Who I am and what I've done. Every last detail. I'll dig it all up, but you have to ask. You have to want it. You can see who I was, or you can see who I am now. I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.”

Want Said Done Light Eye Lasts Asks Clean Details Who I Am Want Me You Want Me Piercings

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick