Mark Twain on Writing
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Mark Twain, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #21128: "Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe these examples:"
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #62013: "I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, a…"
3 Quotes by Mark Twain on Writing
"Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe these examples:"
"I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself."
"The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."