Huckleberry Finn Quotes by Theme

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  • Huck Finn Quotes by Theme
    • Racism and Prejudice
      • "...and the country can rot for all me...I'll never vote again as long as I live"
      • "do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n."
      • "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a ******"
      • "I knowed he was white inside."
      • "...when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that ****** vote, I drawed out."
      • "...everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different"
      • "There was a free ****** there from Ohio--a mulatter, most as white as a white man."
      • "...You can't learn a ****** to argue. So I quit."
      • "Didn't I say I was going to help steal the n*****?"
      • "My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, "Let up on me -- it ain't too late, yet -- I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell." I felt easy, and happy and light as a feather, right off. All my troubles was gone"
    • Slavery
      • "He ain't no slave; he's as free as any cretur that walks this earth!"
    • American Dream
      • "you want to be starting something fresh all the time."
    • Social Class
      • "It ain't right, and it ain't moral... we got to dig him out with the picks and let on it's case knives."
      • "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry - set up straight"
    • Education
      • "I thought maybe you was trying to hocus me again. What's your real name now?"
      • "You don't seem to know anything, somehow-perfect saphead"
      • "I say orgies not because it is the common term but because it is the right term-"
      • "To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin,That makes calamity of so long life."
      • "Well, that's what I'm a saying; all kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out."
      • "You're educated, too, they say—can read and write. You think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, because he can't? I'll take it out of you"
    • Hypocrisy of a civilised society
      • "He never done nothin' to me...it's only on account of the feud."
      • "It ain't right, and it ain't moral... we got to dig him out with the picks and let on it's case knives."
      • Says that Pap Finn's reform is the "holiest time on record."
      • "It's real mysterious, and troublesome, and good, but I bet we can find a way that's twice as long."
      • "The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian"
      • "The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is- a mo"
    • Violence
      • "But by-and-by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I couldn't stand it. I was all over welts"
      • "He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me..."
    • Adventure
      • "I wouldnt want to be nowhere else but here"
      • "..they'll think I've been killed, and floated down the river..."
      • "We went a-sliding down the river, and it did seem sogood to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river, and nobody to bother us"
      • "There warn't no home like a raft, after all."
        • "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft"
    • Wealth/Money
      • "Ef you's got hairy arms en a hairy breas', it's a sign day you'd a-gwyne to be rich."
      • "en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I'd wuth eight hund'd dllars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo."
      • "Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time"
      • "En what use is a half a chile? I wouldn' give a dern for a million un um."
      • "I haint got no money..."
    • Feeling trapped
      • "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry—set up straight."
      • "..they'll think I've been killed, and floated down the river..."
      • "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."
      • "you want to be starting something fresh all the time."
      • "Miss Watson she kept pecking at me, and it got tiresome and lonesome"
      • "Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't."
    • Loyalty
      • "en trash is what people dat puts first on de head er dey's fren' en makes me ashamed."
      • "do on'y white gentleman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim"
      • "it was Miss watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him"
        • "I was ever so glad to see Jim. I warn't lonesome, now"
      • "I tried to make out to myself that I warn't to blame, because I didn't run Jim off from his rightful owner;"
    • Idealism vs Realism
      • "I wish Tom Sawyer was here"
      • "I felt so lonesome i most wished i was dead"
      • "It's real mysterious, and troublesome, and good, but I bet we can find a way that's twice as long."
      • "Human beings can be awfully cruel to one another."
      • "Do you want to go to doing different things from what's in the books and get things all muddled up?"
      • "but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people."
      • "I said it looked to me like all the signs was about back luck."
      • "I decided that all that stuff about genies was just more of Tom Sawyer's lies"
      • "The judge he felt kind of sore. He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way"
    • Religion
      • "Alright then, I'll go to hell"
      • "but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people."
      • "Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie—I found that out."
      • "...she was going to live so as to go to the good place"
    • Lies and Deceit
      • "There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
      • "Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie—I found that out."
      • "..they'll think I've been killed, and floated down the river..."
      • "Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah's my first name. Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary"
      • "Well, if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a n- word. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race"

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