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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Quotes

  • Wikiquote: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." -Notice
    • "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth." -Ch. 1
    • "We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft." -Ch. 18
    • "To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin." -Ch. 21


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    • "'Yes-en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no'.'" -Chapter 8, pg. 52
    • "Your newspapers call you a brave people so much that you think you are braver than any other people - whereas you're just as brave, and no braver." -Chapter 22, pg. 161
    • "I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he'd say what he did say - so it was all right, now, and I told Tom I was agoing for a doctor." -Chapter 40, pg. 301


  • LitQuotes: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • "Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully."
    • "All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised."
    • "It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."


    • "It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study." -Huck
    • "I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n." -Huck, about Jim


  • Sparknotes: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Important Quotes Explained
    • "Tom told me what his plan was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides. So I was satisfied, and said we would waltz in on it." -Huck, Chapter XXXIV
    • "But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before." -Huck, Last Chapter


  • literary-quotations.com: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • "What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?"
    • "Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches."
    • "All kings is mostly rapscallions."


    • "Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same--she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion--there warn't no back-down to her, I judge."