Mark Twain: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 7)

As quoted in Roughing It http://www.friesian.com/quotes.htm (1872).
Roughing It (1872)
Kontext: No California gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the east. Only the scum of the population do it; they and their children. They, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America.

"The Privilege of the Grave" (1905)
Kontext: As an active privilege, [free speech] ranks with the privilege of committing murder: we may exercise it if we are willing to take the consequences. Murder is forbidden both in form and in fact; free speech is granted in form but forbidden in fact. By the common estimate both are crimes, and are held in deep odium by all civilized peoples. Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always.

Quelle: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 413

Quelle: Notebook

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

Letter to an Unidentified Person (1908)

Quelle: Tom Sawyer Abroad

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXI
Following the Equator (1897)
Quelle: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Variante: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Quelle: Pudd'nhead Wilson

Autobiographical Dictation (1906).
Variante: The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.

Variante: Be good and you will be lonely.
Quelle: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Variante: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Quelle: Pudd'nhead Wilson