Mark Twain: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 29)

Mark Twain war US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.
Mark Twain: 832   Zitate 585   Gefällt mir

“[William Dean] Howells applauded, and was full of praises and endorsement, which was wise in him and judicious. If he had manifested a different spirit I would have thrown him out of the window. I like criticism, but it must be my way.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 441

“To put it in rude, plain, unpalatable words — true patriotism, real patriotism: loyalty not to a Family and a Fiction, but a loyalty to the Nation itself!
…"Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it."”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

Czar Nicholas II
1905
Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891-1910 (1992) ed. Louis J. Budd

“There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain buch Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Quelle: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 18

“It [the press] has scoffed at religion till it has made scoffing popular. It has defended official criminals, on party pretexts, until it has created a United States Senate whose members are incapable of determining what crime against law and the dignity of their own body is—they are so morally blind—and it has made light of dishonesty till we have as a result a Congress which contracts to work for a certain sum and then deliberately steals additional wages out of the public pocket and is pained and surprised that anybody should worry about a little thing like that.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

"License of the Press", an address before the Monday Evening Club, Hartford (1873)

“Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

"Taming the Bicycle" (1917)

“It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain buch Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. III
Following the Equator (1897)

“She makes me get up just at the same time every morning; she makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed; I got to wear them blamed clothes that just smothers me, Tom; they don't seem to let any air git through 'em, somehow; and they're so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's; I hain't slid on a cellar-door for — well, it 'pears to be years; I got to go to church and sweat and sweat — I hate them ornery sermons! I can't ketch a fly in there, I can't chaw. I got to wear shoes all Sunday. The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell — everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain buch The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Quelle: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 35

“Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all — the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

Memorandum written on his deathbed
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

“There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 136

“Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

Was the World Made for Man? (1903): also p. 106, What is man?: and other philosophical writings, Volume 19 of Works, 1993, Mark Twain, Paul Baender, University of California Press

“Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in "Disappearance of Literature" http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=TwaSpee.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=52&division=div1, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194 http://books.google.com/books?id=7etXZ5Q17ngC&pg=PA194
Variante: A classic – something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

“I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 475

“France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

“When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

"Consistency", paper read at the Hartford Monday Evening Club on 5 December 1887. The Complete Essays of Mark Twain, p. 582 http://books.google.com/books?id=sujuHO_fvJgC&pg=PA582&dq=%22When+the+doctrine+of+allegiance%22 (First published in the 1923 edition of Mark Twain's Speeches, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine, pp. 120-130, where it is incorrectly dated "following the Blaine-Cleveland campaign, 1884." (See Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals (1979), ed. Frederick Anderson, Vol. 3, p. 41, footnote 92 http://books.google.com/books?id=kMbeUm4pJwsC&pg=PA41) Many reprints repeat Paine's dating.)

“…why doesn't somebody write a tract on "How to Be a Christian and yet keep your Hands off of Other People's Things."”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 222

“Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain buch Die Arglosen im Ausland

Quelle: The Innocents Abroad (1869), Ch. 27

“There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 135

“The best of us would rather be popular than right.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger (unpublished manuscript written 1902–1908)

“Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

The Gorky Incident (1906)

“The Blessings-of-Civilization Trust, wisely and cautiously administered, is a Daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty, and other kinds of emolument, than there is in any other game that is played. But Christendom has been playing it badly of late years, and must certainly suffer by it, in my opinion. She has been so eager to get every stake that appeared on the green cloth, that the People who Sit in Darkness have noticed it -- they have noticed it, and have begun to show alarm. They have become suspicious of the Blessings of Civilization.”

Help us translate this quote
Mark Twain

To the Person Sitting in Darkness http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/sitting.html (1901)