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
“I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.”
Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.”
It seems likely that the attribution to Twain is apocryphal. It is not listed as authentic on Twainquotes http://twainquotes.com/, and is not listed at all in either R. Ken Ramussen's The Quotable Mark Twain (1998) or David W. Barber's Quotable Twain (2002) <br class="br">Misattributed
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 379
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
Mark Twain and I by Opie Read
“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”
Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Variante: Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
Source: Speech to the Savage Club, 9 June 1899, in Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, pp. 277–278 http://books.google.com/books?id=7etXZ5Q17ngC&pg=PA277. (Possibly fabricated from a paraphrase in Aaron Watson, The Savage Club: a Medley of History, Anecdote, and Reminiscence (1907), pp. 126–129 http://books.google.com/books?id=B1cuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63)
“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
Source: 381 https://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ItalTravLit/id/22790<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Mark Twain / Quotes / Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
“It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true.”
Variante: What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
Said to portrait painter Samuel Johnson Woolf, cited in Here am I (1941), Samuel Johnson Woolf; this has often been abbreviated: Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Contexte: A critic never made or killed a book or a play. The people themselves are the final judges. It is their opinion that counts. After all, the final test is truth. But the trouble is that most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.
