Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Quotes

“I don’t take no stock in dead people.”

“Stars and shadows ain’t good to see by.”

“You can’t pray a lie—I found that out.”

“A tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on.”

“To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.”

“The average man don’t like trouble and danger.”

“I don’t want no better book than what your face is.”

“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”

“When a prisoner of style escapes it’s called an evasion.”

“All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.”

“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”

“He was sunshine most always—I mean he made it seem like good weather.”

“After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers.”

“It’s the little things that smooths people’s roads the most, down here below.”

“I couldn’t bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn’t think about nothing else.”

“H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

“Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches.”

““How’d you say he got shot?”
“He had a dream,” I says, “and it shot him.”
“Singular dream,” he says.”

“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.”

“A man can’t get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I’ve a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.”