Mark Twain Quotes

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

I don't think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that's all there is. But, you know, it's just glitter. My friends who I've known since I was 17 - they know who I am.

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

Beauty is only skin deep.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Style equals pretense.

Dress does not give knowledge.

Gold, we think, is something polished and perfect, sophisticated, a luxury. But in its natural state, it's a raw element.

The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like.

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

All that is gold does not glitter.

Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.

That is gold which is worth gold.