“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
Mark Twain książka Przygody Hucka
Źródło: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain: Cytaty po angielsku
Mark Twain był amerykański pisarz, satyryk, humorysta. Cytaty po angielsku.Mark Twain: 765 cytatów159 Polubień
“Only the scum of the population do it”
Mark Twain książka Roughing It
As quoted in Roughing It http://www.friesian.com/quotes.htm (1872). <br class="br">Roughing It (1872) <br class="br">Kontekst: 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.
“Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always”
"The Privilege of the Grave" (1905)
Kontekst: 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.
“Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.”
Mark Twain książka Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXVII
Following the Equator (1897)
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
Letter to an Unidentified Person (1908)
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXI
Following the Equator (1897)
Źródło: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Wariant: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Mark Twain książka Pudd'nhead Wilson
Źródło: Pudd'nhead Wilson
Autobiographical Dictation (1906).
Wariant: The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.
“Be good and you will be lonesome.”
Wariant: Be good and you will be lonely.
Źródło: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain książka Pudd'nhead Wilson
Wariant: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Źródło: Pudd'nhead Wilson