The Prince and the Pauper Quotes

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.”
― Twain, Mark, The Prince and the Pauper

“The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“It does us all good to unbend sometimes.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchedness about him, his dream had had its usual effect: it had intensified the sordidness of his surroundings a thousandfold.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“What dost thou know of suffering and oppression! I and my people know, but not thou.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“But hunger is pride's master...”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“Loose and forbear!”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“That which I have seen, in that little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. Would God I had been blind!”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“Let us change the tense for convenience.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“I did not steal your paltry goods!”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“The reign of Edward VI was a singularly merciful one for those harsh times. Now that we are taking leave of him let us try to keep this in our minds, to his credit”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it maybe that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“The quality of mercy . . . is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; ’Tis mightiest in the mightiest. it becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“But when weariness finally forced him to be silent, he was no longer of use to his tormentors, and they sought amusement elsewhere”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“Foo-foo the First, King of the Mooncalves!”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“By and by Tom’s reading and dreaming about princely life wrought such a strong effect upon him that he began to act the prince, unconsciously.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

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― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“explosive and was expected to blow him up and”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“When I am come to mine own again, I will always honour little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed in me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“Their garment? Have they but one?"
"Ah, good your Worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“It does us all good to unbend sometimes”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his father, which latter had it of his father, this last having in like manner had it of his father—and so on, back and still back, three hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so preserving it. It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper