Mark Twain Language Quotations

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see

There is no such thing as ''the Queen's English.'' The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smo

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.