The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Quotes
"That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly."
"The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me."
"I never seen anybody but lied one time or another."
"It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up."
"I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied."
"She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it anymore."
"All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn’t particular."
"Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth water."
"I was powerful lazy and comfortable – didn’t want to get up and cook breakfast."
"I was all over welts. He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in."
"I wouldn’t want to be nowhere else but here."
"I was most all the time at it because it was about the only way to put in the time."
"Jim said bees wouldn’t sting idiots; but I didn’t believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn’t sting me."
"It was mighty cool and shady in the deep woods, even if the sun was blazing outside."
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
"It was the still places between the whoops that was making the trouble for me."
"I never felt easy till the raft was two mile below there and out in the middle of the Mississippi."
"It's enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."
"I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life."
"The sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock."
"I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds."
"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."
"The first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion?"
"And then Tom he talked along and talked along, and says, le's all three slide out of here one of these nights and get an outfit, and go for howling adventures amongst the Injuns, over in the Territory, for a couple of weeks or two."
"No, he hain’t," Tom says; "it’s all there yet — six thousand dollars and more; and your pap hain’t ever been back since."
"Well, that IS a question, I must say; and just like women! Why, I wanted the ADVENTURE of it."
"But I knowed they’d make trouble, and I thought if you warn’t in no hurry, I’d —"
"It was Tom Sawyer on a mattress; and that old doctor; and Jim, in HER calico dress, with his hands tied behind him; and a lot of people."
"He ain’t no bad nigger, gentlemen; that’s what I think about him."
"She says: 'Why, it’s from St. Petersburg — it’s from Sis.'"
"So then she kissed me, and patted me on the head, and dropped into a kind of a brown study."
"And when it was late in the day the people all went, and then I come in and told her the noise and shooting waked up me and 'Sid,' and the door was locked, and we wanted to see the fun."
"Well, Aunt Polly she said that when Aunt Sally wrote to her that Tom and SID had come all right and safe, she says to herself: 'Look at that, now!'"