Author: Mark Twain

Cites

• Per G.G. (1)
  • IN: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
    FROM: NULL, (1885), Author, NULL
• NULL (3)
  • IN: A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902) Novelette, American
    EPIGRAPH: No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
    FROM: NULL, (1902), Author, NULL
  • IN: The Gilded Age (1873) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Nibiwa win o-dibendan aki Eng A gallant tract Of land it is! Meercraft 'Twill yield a pound an acre; We must let cheap over at first. But, sir, This looks too large for you, I see.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The Prince and the Pauper (1881) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The quality of mercy... is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown.
    FROM: Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.
    FROM: Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar., (1894), Fictional, NULL

Cited by

• Lewis Lapham (1)
  • IN: 30 Satires (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Well, humour is the great thing, the saving thing, after all.
    FROM: Tom Sawyer: Detective, (1896), Novel, US
• Scott Westerfeld (1)
  • IN: Afterworlds (2014) Fiction, Young Adult, American
    EPIGRAPH: Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
    FROM: First cited in Leo Rosten’s Giant Book of Laughter, where he credited Mark Twain for the quote, (1985), Book, US
• Jenny & Vivian, Siobhan Han (1)
  • IN: Ashes to Ashes (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Therein lives the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Shane Peacock (1)
  • IN: Double You (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I never seen nobody but lied, one time or another.
    FROM: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, (1884), Novel, US
• Mike Lancaster (1)
  • IN: 0.4 (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
    FROM: (attributed but contended), (None), NULL, US
• Karen Mahoney (1)
  • IN: Falling to Ash (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I have long ago lost my belief in immortality - also my interest in it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Jana Oliver (1)
  • IN: Foretold (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you figure out why.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Maia Chance (1)
  • IN: Snow White Red-Handed (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The great deeps of a boundless forest have a beguiling and impressive charm in any country: but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. They have peopled all that region with gnomes, and dwarfs, and all sorts of mysterious and uncanny creatures. At the time I am writing of, I had been reading so much of this literature that sometimes I was not sure but I was beginning to believe in the gnomes and fairies as realities.
    FROM: A Tramp Abroad, (1880), Book, US
• Allison Brennan (2)
  • IN: Stolen (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
    FROM: More Tramps Abroad (Following the Equator), (1897), Book, US
• Lynn Cullen (1)
  • IN: Twain's End (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One gets large impressions in boyhood, sometimes, which he has to fight against all his life.
    FROM: The Innocents Abroad, (1869), Book, US
• Tim Dorsey (2)
  • IN: Hammerhead Ranch Motel (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other.
    FROM: Christian Science, (1907), Book, US
  • IN: Shark Skin Suite (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Robert Coover (1)
  • IN: Huck Out West (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "He had a dream," I says, "and it shot him."
    FROM: Huckleberry Finn, (1884), Novel, US
• Brian Freeman (2)
  • IN: The Night Bird (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.
    FROM: Mark Twain, A Biography, (1910), Book, US
  • IN: The Voice Inside (2018) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• James Grady (1)
  • IN: Six Days of the Condor (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Leslie Glass (1)
  • IN: Judging Time (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
    FROM: Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, (1894), NULL, US
• Milly Johnson (1)
  • IN: Here Come the Girls (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.’
    FROM: NA, (None), [NA], US
• Lilith Saintcrow (1)
  • IN: To Hell and Back (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I was a-trembling because I'd got to decide forever betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied for a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, "All right, then, I'll go to hell.
    FROM: Huckleberry Finn, (1884), Novel, US
• Rachel Caine (1)
  • IN: Ill Wind (2003) Speculative Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.
    FROM: Letter to an unidentified person, (1908), Letter, US
• Jack McDevitt (1)
  • IN: Eternity Road (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I asked him how far we were from Hartford. He said he had never heard of the place.
    FROM: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, (1889), Novel, US
• Michelle Zackheim (1)
  • IN: Last Train to Paris (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you like.
    FROM: NULL, (1899), Interview, US
• Luis Alberto Urrea (1)
  • IN: The Water Museum (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
    FROM: Notebook, 1903; Mark Twain, a Biography, (1910), Book, US
• Dominic Utton (1)
  • IN: Martin Harbottle's Appreciation of Time (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
    FROM: The Chronicle of Young Satan, (1969), Novel, US
• Brad Smith (1)
  • IN: Red Means Run (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It is easier to stay out than to get out.
    FROM: Pudd’nhead Wilson, (1894), Novel, US
• O' Neill, Anthony (1)
  • IN: The Dark Side (2016) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
    FROM: Following the Equator, (1897), Book, US
• Carol Muske-Dukes (1)
  • IN: Channeling Mark Twain (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter -- it's the difference between the lightning-bug & the lightning.
    FROM: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain, (1987), Book, US
• Kate Morgenroth (1)
  • IN: Through the Heart (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
    FROM: What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us, (1985), Essay, US
• Chris Ryan (1)
  • IN: Who Dares Wins (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
    FROM: Following the Equator, (1897), Book, US
• Gary Braver (1)
  • IN: Flashback (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When I was young I could remember anything whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened.
    FROM: Mark Twain's Autobiography, (1906), Book, NULL
• Mark B. Mills (1)
  • IN: Waiting for Doggo (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like it's heaven on earth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], US
• Sarah McCoy (1)
  • IN: The Baker's Daughter (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
    FROM: Following the Equator, (1897), NULL, US
• Norman Lock (1)
  • IN: The Boy in his Winter (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I reckon I got light out for the Territory...
    FROM: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, (1884), Novel, US
• Michael Robotham (2)
  • IN: Bleed For Me (2010) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Psychological Fiction, Legal Story , Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Everybody lies - every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his toes, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception.’
    FROM: On the Decay of the Art of Lying, (1882), Essay, US
• Joe R. Lansdale (1)
  • IN: Paradise Sky (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
    FROM: Following the Equator, (1897), Book, US
• Christian Kracht (1)
  • IN: Imperium (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Naked people have little or no influence on society.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Philip Kerr (1)
  • IN: Research (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Write what you know.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Peter Stephan Jungk (1)
  • IN: The Perfect American (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When in doubt, tell the truth.
    FROM: Following the Equator, (1897), Book, US
• Percival Everett (1)
  • IN: Erasure (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I could never tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
    FROM: Following the Equator, (1897), Book, US
• Kij Johnson (1)
  • IN: The River Bank (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Jack Kilborn (3)
  • IN: Endurance (2010) Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We inflame wild beasts with the smell of blood, and then innocently wonder at the wave of brutal appetite that sweeps the land as a consequence.
    FROM: NULL, (1907), Speech, US
  • IN: Afraid (2008) Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear
    FROM: The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, (1893), Novel, US
  • IN: Trapped (2010) Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
    FROM: The Refuge of the Derelicts, (1906), NULL, US
• Clem Chambers (1)
  • IN: The Twain Maxim (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A mine is a hole in the ground with a fool at the bottom and a crook at the top,'
    FROM: NULL, (1900), NULL, US
• Michael Crichton (1)
  • IN: State of Fear (2004) Techno-thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
    FROM: Life on the Mississippi, (1883), Book, US
• Jon Clinch (1)
  • IN: Finn (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He went and bent down and looked, and says: "It's a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too." He's been shot in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan' look at his face -- it's too gashly." I didn't look at him at all. Jim throwed some old rags over him, but he needn't done it; I didn't want to see him. There was heaps of old greasy cards scattered around over the floor, and old whiskey bottles, and a couple of masks made out of black cloth; and all over the walls was the ignorantest kind of words and pictures, made with charcoal. There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a sun-bonnet, and some women's underclothes, hanging against the wall, and some men's clothing, too. We put the lot into the canoe; it might come good. There was a boy's old speckled straw hat on the floor; I took that too. And there was a bottle that had milk in it; and it had a rag stopper for a baby to suck. We would a took the bottle, but it was broke. There was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke.
    FROM: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, (1884), Novel, US
• Leann Sweeney (1)
  • IN: The Cat, the Sneak and the Secret (2015) Mystery Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
    FROM: Pudd'nhead Wilson, (1894), Novel, US
• Annie Spence (1)
  • IN: Dear Fahrenheit 451 (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Hall Page, Katherine (1)
  • IN: The Body in the Gazebo (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And when two lovers woo They still say, I love you
    FROM: Pudd’nhead Wilson, (1893), Novel, US
• Jennifer Probst (1)
  • IN: Any Time, Any Place (2017) Romance Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the hell that has crushed it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Peter Carey (1)
  • IN: Illywhacker (1985) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer and so it pushes the other novelties into second and third place. It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies; and all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises and adventures, the incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibles; but they are all true, they all happened.
    FROM: More Tramps Abroad, (1897), Book, UK
• Curtis Sittenfeld (1)
  • IN: Eligible (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Herman Wouk (1)
  • IN: A Hole in Texas (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Zeke Teflon (1)
  • IN: Free Radicals (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Adam was human -- this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
    FROM: Pudd'nhead Wilson, (1894), Novel, US
• Ishmael Reed (1)
  • IN: Juice! (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I want my nigger."
    FROM: Huckleberry Finn, (1884), Novel, US
• Andrea Portes (1)
  • IN: Hick (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There never was such a country for wandering liars...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Nora Roberts (1)
  • IN: Ceremony in Death (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
    FROM: Concerning the Jews, (1899), Essay, US
• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.
    FROM: Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar., (1894), Fictional, NULL