Mark Twain Quotes About Angels

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  The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Clouds, Flying High

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4707, Delphi Classics

• When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Inspiration, Angel

• Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Character, Angel

  Mark Twain (1995). “The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood”, p.319, University of Georgia Press

• The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Angel, Luxury

• I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Happened, Has Beens

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.197, Courier Corporation

• Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Angel, Men

• I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Angel, Experts

• A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Angel, Wings

• To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Men, Present Time

• I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Speak English, Accents

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

• ...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Sarcasm, Men

  Mark Twain, Paul Baender (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.405, Univ of California Press

• The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Air, Water

• When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Southern, Boon

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