Huckleberry Finn

Character in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn From: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Protagonist and narrator; a resourceful orphan with a distinctive voice and perspective on society

498 quotes

"All I want is to be let alone to live my own life."
Freedom
"I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many risks."
Courage
"It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."
Philosophy
"I don't take no stock in dead people."
Faith
"I couldn't understand why everybody told him to go to hell."
Justice
"I felt horrible and run-down."
"I have always been partial to kind-hearted people."
Kindness
"I never meant no harm by my lying."
Truth
"A conscience is a most troublesome thing."
Wisdom
"I can't help but feel sorry for the wretched."
"I was powerful interested in learning new things."
Education
"I ain't a-going to tell all I know—it would take too long"
Humor
"The widow Douglas she took me for her son"
Family
"I didn't take no stock in dead people"
Wisdom
"All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change"
Change
"It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river on such a night"
Nature
"What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right?"
Wisdom
"The bond of our friendship was too strong to be broken"
Friendship
"I was most powerful glad to get away from the widow's"
Freedom
"Being rich ain't everything"
Money
"It's lovely to live on a raft"
Happiness
"I never felt easy till the bullet went through him"
Fear
"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory"
Adventure
"Superstition ain't always a bad thing"
Wisdom
"A man has got to do what he thinks is right"
Justice
"Tom, he was in his element"
Imagination
"That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain"
Literature
"I'd a died rather than hurt my feelings that way"
Kindness
"They don't have no schools there"
Education
"I don't take no stock in mathematics"
Education