Selected Words of Wisdom and Wit
“I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself.” — In “The History of the Savage Club” [Post]
“A classic—something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” — In “The Disappearance of Literature” [Post]
“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.” — In “The Innocents Abroad” [Post]
“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.” — In “The Innocents Abroad” [Post]
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” [Post]
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” [Post]
