Tell me, ' he asked, with some embarassment, as we strolled along: 'you're a bloody German, aren't you?'' Oh, no. I'm Hungarian.''Hungarian?''Hungarian.''What's that? Is that a country? Or you are just having me on?' Not at all. On my word of honour, it is a country.'' And where do you Hungarians live?'' In Hungary. Between Austria, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia'.'Come off it. Those places were made up by Shakespeare. Antal Szerb
About This Quote

This quotation by Mark Twain relates to the fact that many people can be very silly and rude. They may try to tell you that they are the master of the truth when they are really telling you something that is not true. For example, if you told someone that you were Hungarian, they would most likely say that you are lying. Or if you said that Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare, they would say that this is not true.

Source: The Pendragon Legend

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