“I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.”
Quote by Mark Twain
Author
Mark Twain
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
“If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.”
“I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.”
Source: Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909
“It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.”
“My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: My Autobiography:
“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.”
Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890