8 Mark Twain Quotes on Character

Mark Twain quotes on character

7. I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.

12. Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

48. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

83. Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

99. The Jew is not a disturber of the peace of any country. Even his enemies will concede that. He is not a loafer, he is not a sot, he is not noisy, he is not a brawler nor a rioter, he is not quarrelsome. In the statistics of crime his presence is conspicuously rare - in all countries. With murder and other crimes of violence he has but little to do: he is a stranger to the hangman. In the police court's daily long roll of 'assaults' and 'drunk and disorderlies' his name seldom appears ...

136. The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

173. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

188. There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.