Mark Twain quotes

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

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 difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.