Quotes Huck Finn

Huck Finn

"...These liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all but low down, humbags and frauds."

Pap

"Call this a govment! why, just look at it and see what it's like. Here's the law a-standing ready to take a man's son away from him—a man's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising. Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin' for HIM and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him. And they call THAT govment!

The Duke

"If that line don't fetch them, then I don't know Arkansaw."

Huck 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.

Tom Sawyer

"Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood."

Tom Sawyer

"Old Miss Watson died two months ago...she set him (Jim) free in her will."

Huck Finn

"Well, I did. I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it. Honest INJUN, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum—but that don't make no difference. I ain't a-going to tell, and I ain't a-going back there, anyways. So, now, le's know all about it."

Jim

"Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz HIM dat 'uz bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, 'Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?' Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? You BET he wouldn't!

Huck Finn

It was a close place. I took . . . up [the letter I'd written to Miss Watson], and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right then, I'll go to hell"

Tom Sawyer

Right is right and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better

Maryjane

Take this six thousand dollars, and invest for me and my sister any way you want to, and don't give us a receipt for it

King

Trying to give us the slip, was ye, you pup! Tired of our company, hey?

Buck

Well a feud is this way: a man has a quarrel with a another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kill him; then the other brother's, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in - and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud.

Pap

Well, I'll learn her how to meddle. And looky here--you drop that school, you hear? I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what he is. You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear?"

Aunt Sally

You just march into that sitting room and stay there till I come. You been up to something you no business to, and I lay I'll find out what it is before I'm done with you.