"The highest perfection of politeness is only..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.”

“The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.”

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee IacoccaLove is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.”

“There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.”

“You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.”

“They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.”

“Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.”

“A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.”