Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, portrayed, mark and/or twain:
“A classic—something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“They will mark the stone-battlements
And the circle of them
With a bright stain.
They will cast out the dead
A sight for Priam’s queen to lament
And her frightened daughters.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)