Mark Twain on Beauty

This page displays 2 quotations attributed to Mark Twain and filed under "beauty" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.

Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #48992: "Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare."

Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #143000: "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."