Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
Mark Twain
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Attractive
Romance
God
Sacred
Atrocious
Hyde
Testament
More quotes by Mark Twain
How empty is theory in the presence of fact!
Mark Twain
If one is honest there is no need to remember.
Mark Twain
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
Mark Twain
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
Mark Twain
There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
Mark Twain
I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
Mark Twain
Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.
Mark Twain
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
Mark Twain
Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
Mark Twain
Don't wait the time is never just right.
Mark Twain
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
Mark Twain
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
Mark Twain
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, Our Country, right or wrong, and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
Mark Twain
When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.
Mark Twain
Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.
Mark Twain
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
Mark Twain
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
Mark Twain
It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.
Mark Twain
