1884 · Skopia

Showing 15 quotes from 1884

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

1884

★ 7.1

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Gabriel Manigault

1884

★ 5.3

Essay · Magazine

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

1884

★ 5.2

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 4.9

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 4.0

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

It’s lovely to live on a raft.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 4.0

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

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.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 3.9

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

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.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 3.9

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 3.9

Poetry is the expression, in human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysterious meaning of the aspects of existence: in this way it confers authenticity on our time on earth and constitutes the only spiritual task there is.

Stephane Mallarme

1884

★ 3.5

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 2.2

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

William Tecumseh Sherman

1884

★ 2.0

Play · Drama (play)

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

1884

★ 1.9

I shall never marry; I regard that now as an established fact, and on the whole a very respectable one; I am both happy enough and miserable enough, as it is, and don't wish to add to either side of the account.

1884

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

1884

★ 1.1