More quotes by Mark Twain

"If books are not good company, where shall I find it?"
"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
"The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."
"Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."