Mark Twain

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

Mark Twain

Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

Mark Twain

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Mark Twain

Congress: America’s only true criminal class.

Mark Twain

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

Mark Twain

Conscience, man’s moral medicine chest.

Mark Twain

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

Mark Twain

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Mark Twain

Cooper’s art has some defects. In one place in ‘Deerslayer,’ and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

Mark Twain

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Mark Twain