The best quotes by Mark Twain

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He was pretty thoroughly bewildered; he had come home, a jubilant prodigal, expecting to find everybody wild with joy over his return; and instead had got the cold shoulder and a jail. The promise and the fulfilment differed so widely that the effect was stunning; he could not decide whether it was most tragic or most grotesque. He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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If a woman often admires herslef in a mirror, it is not necessarily a sign of vanity, but of bravery.

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The truth is that men don't think: a great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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Time that distinguishes the rule will make fear to whom painfully remembers.

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I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

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Definition of a classic: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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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.