All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Character”

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
“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.”
“It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.”
“There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.”
“There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.”
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
“As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.”
“As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.”
“As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.”
“I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.”
“I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.”
“I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.”
“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.”
“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.”
“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.”
“When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.”
“When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.”
“When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.”
“there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouthâ€¦ there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations”
“there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouthâ€¦ there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations”
“there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouthâ€¦ there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations”
“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.”
“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.”
“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.”

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