Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

Quotes

• “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some...”
• “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can li...”
• “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's...”
• “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncr...”
• “When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children...”
• “Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I ain’t cynical, Miss ...”
• “Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a trut...”
• “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his s...”
• “Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a ...”
• “In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of d...”
• “It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it does...”
• “Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were i...”
• “Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
• “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
• “Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
• “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
• “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
• “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
• “With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
• “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”