Quotes by Twain, Mark

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of p >>

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual super >>

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, fe >>

Quotations about Women

The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for su >>

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world >>

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be ph >>

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Twain, Mark