Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, portrayed, mark and/or twain:
“Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan,—as portrayed by Milton.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail,
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)