Mark Twain citations célèbres
Mark Twain Citations
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
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All schools, all colleges, have 2 great functions: to confer, & to conceal, valuable knowledge.
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“La vérité est la chose la plus précieuse que nous avons. Il nous faut l'économiser.”
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
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Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive the dead, but God does not.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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What God lacks is convictions -stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something, -not try to be everything.
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“Il n'y a eu qu'un chrétien. Ils l'ont attrapé et crucifié – tôt.”
There has only been one Christian. They caught him & crucified him -early.
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Variante: Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçu par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.
“La charité nous force à tirer le rideau sur le reste de cette scène.”
Mark Twain livre Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain: Citations en anglais
“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain livre A Horse's Tale
Acknowledgements
Twain does not quote Herodotus here, he only sums up what he believes to have been Herodotus' approach to the writing of history. Nevertheless, this apocryphal statement is now often quoted as being the very words of Herodotus.
A Horse's Tale (1907)
“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”
Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve
“Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.”
Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.”
Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”
Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain livre A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
