FAMOUS QUOTES FROM 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.”

“I never seen sich a scoundrel.”

“I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life.”

“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.”

“Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you’s gwyne to git well agin.”

“It’s like I heard someone say, You can’t pray a lie—I found that out.”

“I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn’t no use for me to try to learn to do right.”

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

“If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain’t sleepy—if you are anywheres where it won’t do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.”

“I’ll go to hell.”

“It don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.” A PERSON WHO IS FULL OF EXCUSES QUOTES

“Sometimes there’s a man that’s so sick and tired of being treated bad that he won’t be treated so bad no more.”

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

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”

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

“You don’t reckon it’s going to take thirty-seven years to learn how to play the fool, do you?”

“You can’t learn a nigger to argue.”

“It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a n*****; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterward, neither.”

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

“But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable.”