Mark Twain: Citáty anglicky
Mark Twain byl americký spisovatel. Citáty anglicky.“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
Mark Twain and I by Opie Read
“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”
Mark Twain kniha Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Zdroj: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Varianta: Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
Zdroj: Speech to the Savage Club, 9 June 1899, in Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, pp. 277–278 http://books.google.com/books?id=7etXZ5Q17ngC&pg=PA277. (Possibly fabricated from a paraphrase in Aaron Watson, The Savage Club: a Medley of History, Anecdote, and Reminiscence (1907), pp. 126–129 http://books.google.com/books?id=B1cuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63)
“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
Zdroj: 381 https://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ItalTravLit/id/22790<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Mark Twain / Quotes / Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
“It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true.”
Varianta: What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
Said to portrait painter Samuel Johnson Woolf, cited in Here am I (1941), Samuel Johnson Woolf; this has often been abbreviated: Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Kontext: A critic never made or killed a book or a play. The people themselves are the final judges. It is their opinion that counts. After all, the final test is truth. But the trouble is that most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.