The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
~ Mark Twain

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
~ Mark Twain

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Truth is stranger than fiction — to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
~ Mark Twain

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
~ Mark Twain

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The only reason why God created man is because
he was disappointed with the monkey.
~ Mark Twain

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
~ Mark Twain

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To put it in rude, plain, unpalatable words — true patriotism, real patriotism is: loyalty not to a family and a fiction, but a loyalty to the nation itself.
~ Mark Twain

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