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1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors QUOTES

1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors QUOTES

1 " Shaxpur.—In the great hand of God I stand and so proclaim mine innocence. Though ye sinless hosts of heaven had foretold ye coming of this most desolating breath, proclaiming it a work of uninspired man, its quaking thunders, its firmament-clogging rottenness his own achievement in due course of nature, yet had not I believed it; but had said the pit itself hath furnished forth the stink, and heaven's artillery hath shook the globe in admiration of it. "

― Mark Twain , 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

2 " will masturbate until he hath enrich'd whole acres with his seed. "

― Mark Twain , 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

3 " Whitman and the Bible are no more obscene than Nature herself—no more obscene than a manure pile, out of which come roses and cherries. (Quoting C.E.S. Wood) "

― Mark Twain , 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

4 " With Clemens it may truly be said that profanity was an art—a pyrotechnic art that entertained nations. "

― Mark Twain , 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

5 " Sort of amusing it was—and gay—not like real swearing, 'cause he swore like an angel.
(Quoting Katy Leary) "

― Mark Twain , 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

6 " Gently, slowly, with no profane inflexions of voice, but irresistibly as though they had the headwaters of the Mississippi for their source, came this stream of unholy adjectives and choice expletives. (Quoting Elizabeth Wallace) "

― Mark Twain , 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

7 " It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Rome and Florence and see what this last generation has been doing with the statues. These works, which had stood in innocent nakedness for ages, are all figleaved now. Yes, every one of them. Nobody noticed their nakedness before, perhaps; nobody can help noticing it now,
the figleaf makes it so conspicuous. (Quoting Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens) "

― Mark Twain , 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

8 " Human taste is a curious thing; delicacy is purely a matter of environment and point of view. (Quoting John Hay) "

― Mark Twain , 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors