A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By Mark Twain QUOTATION: That is the way we are made: we don’t reason, where we feel; we just feel.
ATTRIBUTION: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. Hank Morgan, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, ch. 11 (1889).

QUOTATION: She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
ATTRIBUTION: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. Hank Morgan, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, ch. 22 (1889).

QUOTATION: Intellectual “work” is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
ATTRIBUTION: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, ch. 28 (1889).

QUOTATION: Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
ATTRIBUTION: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, ch. 22 (1889).

QUOTATION: The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only—not from its privileged classes.
ATTRIBUTION: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, ch. 15 (1889).

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