Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. ✨ Mark Twain…

Mark Twain
1626 citations
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.161, Courier Corporation
Reading
22

More Author Quotes

Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, t … ▶
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed i … ▶
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the resu … ▶
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. ✨ Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.33 … ▶

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.161, Courier Corporation

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes