Mark Twain Quotes About Personality

• I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.442, Courier Corporation

• I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Inspiration, Sea

  Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”

• There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Character, Personality

  Pudd'nhead Wilson "A Whisper to the Reader," "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Ideas, Personality

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

• There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Assessment, Personality

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) ch. 1

• We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

  Mark Twain

  Personality, Looks, Blame

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