Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
american-author obliged truth
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
american-author fiction truth
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
death die enter next saved spent truth
Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.
himself liar man truthful
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar
halfway lie putting shoes travel truth
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes
lie lies-and-lying run six truth trying
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
ability anybody lie nor truth
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
fiction stranger truth-is
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
mother truth lying
Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club
truth inspiration prevailing
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
truth care sometimes
I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
truth believe mind
But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.
truth telling-the-truth tricks
Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
truth self people
It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.