Mark Twain

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

Mark Twain

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Mark Twain

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Mark Twain

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.

Mark Twain

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

Mark Twain

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Mark Twain

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one’s self-respect.

Mark Twain

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it’s a grand thing.

Mark Twain

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

Mark Twain

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

Mark Twain