“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
— Mark Twain
“The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.”
— Mark Twain
“An unpopular opinion concerning politics or religion lies concealed in the breast of every man; in many cases not only one sample, but several. The more intelligent the man, the larger the freightage of this kind of opinions he carries, and keeps to himself.”
— Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
— Mark Twain
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”
— Mark Twain
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
— Mark Twain
“France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.”
— Mark Twain
“James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness; the report of my death was an exaggeration.”
— Mark Twain