The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches Quotes

“The Emperor sends his troops to the field with immense enthusiasm. He will lead them in person, when they return.”
― Mark Twain, The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches

“I would always prefer to have the privilege of printing a serious and sensible remark, in case one occurred to me, without the reader's feeling obliged to consider himself outraged.”
― Mark Twain, The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches

“the person who "possesses a hole which once belonged in a handkerchief owned by Charles Dickens.”
― Mark Twain, The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches

“I should feel obliged to stipulate that Marshal Serrano be reduced to the rank of constable, or even roundsman. He is no longer fit to be City Marshal. A man who refused to be king because he was too old and feeble, is ill qualified to help sick people to the station-house when they are armed and their form of delirium tremens is of the exuberant and demonstrative kind.”
― Mark Twain, The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches

“The reason arable land is so scarce in Spain is because the people squander so much of it on their persons, and then when they die it is improvidently buried with them.”
― Mark Twain, The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches

“said he judged that wher' he was going to, a body would find it considerable better to attract attention by a picturesque moral character than a natty burial case with a swell doorplate on it.”
― Mark Twain, The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches

“our party had just ridden through the squalid hive of human vermin which still holds the ancient Biblical name of Endor;”
― Mark Twain, The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches

“Take your bow, O Hiawatha, Take your arrows, jasper-headed, Take your war-club, Puggawaugun, And your mittens, Minjekahwan, And your birch canoe for sailing, And the oil of Mishe-Nama.”
― Mark Twain, The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches