Mark Twain

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn’t strength of mind enough to believe it.

Mark Twain

But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery – go!

Mark Twain

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon ‘made ground’; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

Mark Twain

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

Mark Twain

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

Mark Twain

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.

Mark Twain

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Mark Twain

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

Mark Twain

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Mark Twain

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Mark Twain