Mark Twain Quotes about Literature
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.13, Courier Corporation
Following the Equator ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)
Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.44, Univ of California Press
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.104, Book Tree
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation
Mark Twain (1969). “Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909”, p.386, Univ of California Press
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Following the Equator ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Edmund Burke 25
Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.172, Univ of California Press
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
"The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".
Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.151, University of Missouri Press
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.246, Courier Corporation
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.79, St. Martin's Press
I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 31 (1884)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 31 (1884)