Mark Twain Speak Quotations

It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.

I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent

None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

Children and fools always speak the truth

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.