"We like a man to come right..." - Quote by Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.
More by Mark Twain
“There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.”
“Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.”
“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
More on Opinion
“The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.”
“I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.”
“Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.”
More on Human Nature
“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.”
“You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.”
“We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.”