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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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of all American art.
~ Mark Twain

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

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No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.
~ 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 weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.
~ Mark Twain

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
~ Mark Twain

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Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
~ 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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