Huck Finn Quotes
The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out.
Chapter 1- Huckleberry Finn
You don't know about me, without you have red my 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 to,d the truth, mainly. There was some things he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
Chapter 1- Huckleberry Finn
"I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals."
Chapter 12- ??
I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murders, to be in such a fix. I says to myself, there ain't to telling but I might come to be a murderer myself, yet, and then how would I like it?
Chapter 13- Huckleberry Finn
"My heart wuz mos' broke bekase you wuz los', en I didn't k'yer no mo' what become Ed me en de raf'. En when I wake up en fine you back agin', all safe en soun', de tears come en I could a got down on my knees en kiss' yo' foot I's so thankful. En all you wuz thinkin 'bout wuz how you could make a fool uv Jim wid a lie."
Chapter 15- Jim
Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I beep gun to get it through my head that he was most free- and who was to blame for it? Why, me.
Chapter 16- Huckleberry Finn
So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about [right and wrong], but after this always do whichever comes handiest at the time.
Chapter 16- Huckleberry Finn
"Did you want to kill [the Shepherdson], Buck?" "Well, I bet I did." "What did he do to you?" "Him? He never done nothing to me." "Well, then, what did you want to kill him for?" "Why nothing- only its on account of the feud."
Chapter 18- Huckleberry Finn Buck Grangerford
For what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and fell right and kind towards others.
Chapter 19- Huckleberry Finn
"But how can we do it if we don't know what it is?" "Why blame it all, we've got to do it. Don't I tell you it's in the the books?"
Chapter 2- Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer
" I doan' mine one er two kings, but dat's enough. Dis one's powerful drunk, en de duke ain' ,much better."
Chapter 20- Jim
"The pitiful eat thing out is a mob; that's what an army is- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it, is beneath pitifulness."
Chapter 22- Colonel Sherburn
I do believe [Jim] cared just as much for his people as whit folks does for their'n. It don't seem natural, but I reckon so.
Chapter 23- Huckleberry Finn
I went out and told the Widow about it, and she said the thing a body could get by praying for it was "spiritual gifts". This was too much for me, but she told me what she means- I must help others, and do everything I could for other people, and look out for them all the time, and never think about myself... But I couldn't see no advantage about it- except for the other people- so at last I reckoned I wouldn't worry about it any more, but just let it go.
Chapter 3- Huckleberry Finn
"Lego the boy, you old idiot! Would you a done any different? Did you inquire around for him when you got loose? I don't remember it."
Chapter 30- The duke and the king
"All right, then, I'll go to hell"- and tore [the note to Miss Watson] up.
Chapter 31- Huckleberry Finn
I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals [the duke and the king], it seems like I couldn't ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
Chapter 33- Huckleberry Finn
At first I hated the school, but by-and-by I got so I could stand it... I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones too, a little bit.
Chapter 4- Huckleberry Finn
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
Chapter 43- Huckleberry Finn
The judge he felt kind of sore. He said he reckoned a body could reform the ole man with a shot gun maybe, but he didn't know no other way.
Chapter 5- Huckleberry Finn
"And looky here- you drop that school, you hear? I'll learn people to bring up a boy put on airs over his father and let on to be better'on what he is."
Chapter 5- Pap
But by-and-by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I couldn't stand it. I was all over welts. He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in. Once he locked me in and was gone three days. It was dreadful lonesome.
Chapter 6- Huckleberry Finn
The widow she found out where I was, by-and-by, and she sent a man over to try to get a hold of me, but pap drove him off with the gun, and it warn'it long after that till I was used to being where I was, and liked it, all but the cowhide part.
Chapter 6- Huckleberry Finn
"People will call me a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum- but that don't make no difference. I ain't agoing to tell, and I ain't agoing back there anyways."
Chapter 8- Huckleberry Finn
I was ever so glad to see Jim. I warn't lonesome, now.
Chapter 8- Huckleberry Finn
That is, there's something in [prayer] when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.
Chapter 8- Huckleberry Finn
"Yes- en I's rich now come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's with eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."
Chapter 8- Jim