Mark Twain Quotes

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

There was something sweet in watching him pull himself back together, restoring the façade he wore for the world while I knew at least a little of the man beneath it.

People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be outlandish and theatrical at the expense of having emotions. They don't get that there's another side to me, and I keep trying to show that other side.

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

There's a deep piece of me that wants to be very personal and not share everything with everybody and not put it out there.

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.

There are so many ways in which the heart of man conceals itself from man!

I keep my wishes and dreams secret, like a child.

I'm not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that's just one side of me, and I guess people just assume I'm some troubled guy who's constantly sad.

I don't want people to know everything about me.

I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.

What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.