Quote

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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
Consideration
Sunday
Monarch
Keeps
Monarchs
None
Pirate
Crime
Royalty
School
Accord
Good
Crimes
Entitled

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
The southerner talks music.
Mark Twain
Image
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
Mark Twain
Image
By trampling upon the helpless abroad with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home.
Mark Twain
Image
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
Mark Twain
Image
It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.
Mark Twain
Image
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
Mark Twain
Image
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Mark Twain
Image
Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.
Mark Twain
Image
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
Mark Twain
Image
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache and what is more, I never intend to have it.
Mark Twain
Image
We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.
Mark Twain
Image
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
Mark Twain
Image
My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
Mark Twain
Image
Talent without work is useless, thank God
Mark Twain
Image
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.
Mark Twain
Image
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
Mark Twain
Image
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
Mark Twain
Image
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.
Mark Twain
Image
God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.
Mark Twain
Image
Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.
Mark Twain