Quote

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Mark Twain

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Done
Traits
Killing
Large
Joy
Seeing
Race
Human
Humans

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Mark Twain
Image
When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.
Mark Twain
Image
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company
Mark Twain
Image
I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.
Mark Twain
Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.
Mark Twain
Image
Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.
Mark Twain
Image
I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.
Mark Twain
Image
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
Mark Twain
Image
Always obey your parents - when they are present.
Mark Twain
Image
Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.
Mark Twain
Image
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
Mark Twain
Image
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain
Image
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
Image
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
Mark Twain
Image
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Mark Twain
Image
The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.
Mark Twain
Image
If I had more time, I would have written less.
Mark Twain
Image
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
Mark Twain
Image
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.
Mark Twain
Image
The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.
Mark Twain