7 Mark Twain Quotes on Criticism

Mark Twain quotes on criticism

9. Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

10. All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the 'elect' have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so 'slow,' so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle - keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate. If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously-engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason.

19. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

36. ...[H]eaven for climate, Hell for society.

114. The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

137. I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

193. The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.