Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 28)
Mark Twain trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
Letter to an Unidentified Person (1908)
“Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXVII
Following the Equator (1897)
“Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always”
"The Privilege of the Grave" (1905)
Context: As an active privilege, [free speech] ranks with the privilege of committing murder: we may exercise it if we are willing to take the consequences. Murder is forbidden both in form and in fact; free speech is granted in form but forbidden in fact. By the common estimate both are crimes, and are held in deep odium by all civilized peoples. Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always.
“Only the scum of the population do it”
As quoted in Roughing It http://www.friesian.com/quotes.htm (1872).
Roughing It (1872)
Context: No California gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the east. Only the scum of the population do it; they and their children. They, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America.
“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”
Source: Notebook
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 346