Book

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain's classic tale of an engineer transported back in time, where he uses his technological skill to pose as a magician.

(12 total)

Characters

Mark Twain (12)

“You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: heart, Feelings, emotions, own laws, thumping

“Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such villany away in one swift tidal-wave of blood -- one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that ha…”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing…”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“The pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long and difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and they learned that the main thing they had come for had ceased to exist, they didn't do as horses or cats or angle-worms would pro…”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“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.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it i…”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: Mind, Thoughts, worry, Anxiety, Thinking

“His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: Mind, Thoughts, brain work, how your mind works, slow

“Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: Words, Power of Words, look, Women, Power

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: depend, Imagination, Vision, Future, Mind